Selected Interviews, Presentations, and Articles

For a full list of interviews, presentations, and articles, contact Betsy.

Interviews and Presentations

Spoken Earth: The environment podcast

British author and environmentalist Adam Weymouth interviews Betsy about overpopulation, apocalypse, and migration in this episode.

Living on Earth radio show

In the wake of the Buffalo mass shootings in May 2022, the public radio environmental show, Living on Earth, interviews Betsy about the threat posed by the spread of ecofascism and what environmentalists can do about it.

Consider This (NPR)

Betsy is interviewed in Ari Shapiro’s NPR story on the growing overlap between the Far Right and environmentalism.

Majority Report

Sam Seder interviews Betsy about her book The America Syndrome on Majority Report.

Televised Town Hall, Seattle WA

Televised talk about “How Optimism is Essential for Social Change,” Town Hall Seattle, June 2017.

TEDxHampshireCollege

Tedx Talk, “Beyond Apocalypse and Down to Earth,” Amherst, MA, October 2011.

Cover of Last Place Called Home: an atmospheric scene of trees, water, and sky

As a small New England town becomes embattled in the drug war, single mother Laura Everett finds herself on the brink of love and her teenage son on the brink of disaster. To save him and his friends from potentially deadly consequences, she is forced out of her comfort zone and into action.

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Articles

Contribution to the Great Transition Initiative’s forum on “The Population Debate Revisited,” August 2022.

Columbia Journalism Review, Spring 2020.

(co-authored with Anne Hendrixson) Geoforum 101, May 2019, 250-259.

(co-authored with Mohan Rao) Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai), vol. L, no. 44, October 31, 2015.

(co-authored with Anne Hendrixson and Jade Sasser) in Melissa Leach, ed., Gender Equality and Sustainable Development, London: Routledge and Earthscan, 2015.