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Life Kit

Parenting In The Time Of Climate Change

Life Kit

NPR

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Business, Kids & Family

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Whether it's through extreme weather or anxiety-inducing headlines, kids today have a front row seat to the realities of climate change. Here's how parents can help their kids work through fear and get them the facts. (This episode originally ran in 2019.)

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0:00.0

This is NBR's life kit. I'm Anya Kamenets.

0:02.2

I'm Corey Turner and this is Shuo.

0:04.8

My name is Shuo Pasco-Yang and I am a Baba and an organizer.

0:10.8

Baba is dad in Mandarin.

0:14.3

Shuo lives in Terrytown, New York and his daughter is now a toddler.

0:18.7

After my daughter was born, I kind of just started researching like,

0:23.1

what would the world look like in 2100 if we don't do anything?

0:26.9

And essentially, it seems like billions of people would die,

0:31.8

which was crazy if we don't do anything that is about climate change.

0:37.3

And what he learned kind of freaked him out.

0:39.8

Oh my god, what's going on? I have to stop this.

0:42.4

So he made a promise to his baby girl.

0:44.8

I actually wrote a message to her.

0:48.1

It's a little bit hard for me to talk about,

0:52.5

but you know, basically it's that your future as it has been promised

1:00.9

to like me and many others is not what that will be.

1:04.9

It's not what that will look like.

1:07.0

I didn't know exactly about this before bringing you into this world,

1:12.6

but I'm going to fight as hard as I can to give you the kind of future

1:17.2

that I think you deserve and that other kids deserve.

1:19.9

In this episode, how do parent through change?

1:23.7

Climate change.

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