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Feb 2023
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Climate, Politics and Procreation: Aliso...

THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
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In the third episode of a four-part series exploring the intersection of climate chaos and reproductive justice, Meehan Crist speaks to historian Alison Bashford. Alison discusses the history of efforts to control population size, how population is thought about in the Anthropocene, and how suspending critique of the past can give valuable insight into the present.

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