Lucy

1. How can we effectively engage communities in conversations about reproductive rights while emphasizing the connection to ecological sustainability and social justice?

Mark

🌍 Love the vision of a balanced future for all life on Earth! It's time we shrink our human footprint and uplift every being's right to thrive. 💚 #WorldPopulationBalance #SustainableFuture

Kate

2. In what ways can alternative economic models contribute to shrinking our human impact and fostering a culture of ecocentrism and intergenerational justice?

World Population Balance

Across India and around the world, communities are resisting destruction and reclaiming their right to shape their own futures. Shrishtee Bajpai, researcher and activist with the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, reveals how local struggles for self-determination connect across cultures and what is being done to weave a 'pluriverse' of possibilities rooted in social and ecological justice. Highlights include: 🔻How Shrishtee's upbringing as an upper caste, urban Indian girl living along the river Ganga shaped her search for personal freedom and ecological and social justice; 🔻How her work with Indian village communities resisting ecological and social destruction helped her connect academic critiques of feminism and development to lived realities; 🔻How she challenges oppressive systems while also interrogating her own privilege and colonial inheritance; 🔻Why creating a 'pluriverse' of diverse, locally-rooted alternatives is essential to move beyond the dominant development model and progress narrative; 🔻Why the Global Tapestry of Alternatives supports 'radiating out' values and lessons rather than 'scaling up', which risks destroying the important nuance of local context; 🔻Why strengthening communities’ imagination, confidence, and self-determination is central to her work; 🔻Why the Rights of Nature movement must de-emphasize the perspectives of NGOs and governments and center the voice of local communities with long-standing connections to their environments; 🔻How profound experiences with the more-than-human world and with story-based community ritual sustain her work.

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Laura

💡 So inspiring to see an organization tackling these important issues with such compassion and insight! Let's shift the narrative and create a world where all species can flourish together. 🌿✨ #Ecocentrism #SocialJustice

World Population Balance

Rebecca grew up homeschooled in a patriarchal American family, later serving as a Marine, attending university, and traveling the world. Bound by the shared trauma and values of their upbringing, Rebecca remained very close to her sister. Awakening to feminism and the planetary crisis together, they both decided to not have children.

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