My guest today is Jason Godesky. Jason is an old friend and colleague of mine. We met in the early 2000’s on an internet chat board called “Ish Con” short for Ishmael Conference. It was a place to discuss the ideas presented in the books by Daniel Quinn. It was here that I gave Jason the nickname, “The Machine Gun” for his ability to remember and rapidly deploy facts, journals, studies, ethnographies, and more to back up many of the positions in what we would later call Rewilding. When ishcon closed down in 2006, I bought the domain rewild.info and invited Jason to help create a new online chat board specific to rewilding. Jason is well known for his essays on his now defunct blog, The Anthropik Network. A few years ago when Rewild Portland acquired rewild.com, I asked Jason to write the content to help people describe what rewilding means. These days his main focus is on using storytelling and gaming to promote the concepts of rewilding. Though, every once and a while he’ll post a new essay on a particular topic of interest. It’s his latest essay, entitled “Overpopulation” that we’ll be discussing here on the rewilding podcast today. Notes:Jason’s ProjectsOverpopulation by Jason GodeskyThe Fifth WorldThe Fifth World PatreonMentionsIshmael by Daniel QuinnMaking Kin Not Population Perceptions of the Environment by Tim IngoldPopulation Growth Daniel QuinnLotka–Volterra equationsLaw of Limited CompetitionEurope & The People Without History by Eric WolfThe Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph TainterAgainst the Grain by Richard ManningAll Things Being Equal: A Review of The Dawn of EverythingOvershoot by William CattonThe Neolithic refrigerator on a Friday nightWhy These Bears “Waste” FoodJevons Paradox: The Efficiency DilemmaDisinterpretationDegrowthSupport the show

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