{"id":104,"date":"2026-01-25T14:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/?p=104"},"modified":"2026-01-25T14:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:40:31","slug":"speculative-climate-futures-environmental-ngos-and-populationism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/01\/25\/speculative-climate-futures-environmental-ngos-and-populationism\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculative climate futures, environmental NGOs and populationism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So great to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/miranda-iossifidis-45286731\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/miranda-iossifidis-45286731\/\">Miranda Iossifidis<\/a>&#8216;s article on this out. It explores the speculative climate futures fabricated by population-focused environmental charities and non-profit organizations &#8211; how they draw on NGO Science Fiction (SF) capital and eco-emotions to promote neo-Malthusian ideas and interventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized wp-duotone-unset-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105\" style=\"width:179px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Open access: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17524032.2025.2601613\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17524032.2025.2601613<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So great to see Miranda Iossifidis&#8216;s article on this out. It explores the speculative climate futures fabricated by population-focused environmental charities and non-profit organizations &#8211; how they draw on NGO Science Fiction (SF) capital and eco-emotions to promote neo-Malthusian ideas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/01\/25\/speculative-climate-futures-environmental-ngos-and-populationism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}