One Child to Rule Them All

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Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

If we really want to combat climate change, why not institute a serious cap on human population? It's a common question, and on today's episode we talk about a future in which there is a global one-child policy put in place, and why that might not actually be a very good, or just, idea. Guests: Dr. Jade Sasser — Associate professor of gender and sexuality studies at UC Riverside, author of On Infertile Ground, Population Control and Women’s Rights in the Era of Climate Change. Dr. Leslie Wang — Assistant professor of sociology at UMass Boston and author of Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China Meehan Crist — Writer-in-residence in Biological Sciences at Columbia University. → → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ← 〰️〰️〰️ For more about FLASH FORWARD PRESENTS head this way. 〰️〰️〰️ Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. The voice of our future overlord was played by Brent Rose. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host.
0:03.0	Flash forward.
0:04.0	Flash forward.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome to Flash Forward.
0:11.0	I'm Rose and I'm your host. Flash Forward is a show about the future.
0:17.0	Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario.
0:25.0	We always start with a little audio field trip into the future
0:29.0	to check out what's going on,
0:31.0	and then we teleport back to today to talk to experts about how that world
0:37.0	that we just visited might really go down.
0:41.0	Got it? Great. This episode we are starting in the year 2032. Thank you all for coming.
1:04.0	Thank you. Please take a seat.
1:06.0	Thank you very much for your presence.
1:08.0	I want to begin by thanking the members of the Human Futures Task Force
1:12.0	who have been working tirelessly on this initiative
1:14.6	for the last six months.
1:16.6	As you all note, we're living in unprecedented times, and many of the members on this task force
1:21.0	have given up a large part of their lives to shape the policy I'm about to outline.
1:25.0	On a personal note, when Commissioner Erlich asked me to lead this group, I initially said no.
1:31.0	I simply was not sure what he was asking for could be done. The question of reproductive
1:36.4	restrictions seemed to fraught and too challenging, even for me. And let me tell you it has not been
1:42.0	easy as the press has been keen to report the
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