| Author(s) | Alain Savard; Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier; Charles Simard; Clément de Gaulejac; Frédéric Legault |
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Myth 2
The Problem Is Overpopulation!
From: Ecology for the 99%
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This chapter reconsiders the dominant discourse which says that overpopulation is a primary contributor to the environmental crisis, discussing the harmful discourse resulting from this belief.
Contributors
Frédéric Legault
Frédéric Legault is a teacher and has a PhD in sociology about post-capitalist economics.
Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier
Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier is a philosophy teacher, doctoral candidate in sociology and author of Printemps de force.
Alain Savard
Alain Savard is an organiser and negotiators for labor unions in the food processing industry. He also has a PhD in political science (York University) on the theories of power and social change.
Clément de Gaulejac
Artist, author, and illustrator, Clément de Gaulejac has lived in Montreal since the early 2000s. His most recent exhibition is entitled Les Maitres du monde sont des gens (Galerie UQO, 2019; Écart, 2021; Plein sud, 2022; Musée régional de Rimouski, 2023). He is also the creator of the fountain called Bottes de pluie, installed in front of the Maisonneuve Library in Montreal. With Le Quartanier editions, he has published Les artistes (2017), Grande école (2012) as well as Le livre noir de l’art conceptuel (2011).
Charles Simard
Charles Simard is a Québécois editor and translator from Montréal, also known as Tiohtià:ke and Mooniyaang. He works as poetry, fiction, and non-fiction editor for Talonbooks in Vancouver on Coast Salish Territory. His published work includes the essay Littérature, analyse et forme: Herbert, Tolkien, Borges, Eco (EUE, 2010) and a number of translations for Orca Book Publishers, including Elise Gravel’s The Wrench and Myriam Daguzan Bernier’s dictionary of sexuality, Naked. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in comparative literature from Université de Montréal and was a postdoctoral fellow at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center.
