REWIND: Should We Have Children in a Climate Emergency?

Climate One

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4.7 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The climate crisis seems to be unfolding faster than ever before — with catastrophic floods, winter wildfires, and last summer’s killer heat. It’s becoming increasingly hard to mentally set climate aside as a future problem — it is here, real in our present moment. How do we grapple with the weight of these changes, and process our fear for what is coming for us, and for the next generation? And how do those emotions affect our decisions about whether or not to have children, who in many ways represent an embodied version of our hope for the future? Guests: Daniel Sherrell, Author, Warmth, Coming of Age at the End of Our World Seb Gould, physics teacher Irène Mathieu, pediatrician and poet Virginie Le Masson, co-director of the Centre for Gender and Disaster at University College London Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Winter runs, hit different.
0:03.0	When it's cold, dark and quiet, the effort gets loud.
0:07.0	But even when your legs say slow down, Hoka inspires you to move.
0:12.0	Just like the crew who keeps you going strong.
0:15.0	A pack, bringing light into the darkness, step by step, brighter with every stride.
0:23.2	With them beside you, you saw.
0:26.4	Hoka, together we fly higher.
0:28.9	Find out more at hoker.com.
0:31.5	Hi, it's Greg Dalton.
0:35.9	I'd like to hear your comments on the show, topics we should cover, and guest suggestions.
0:39.3	You can reach me at Greg at climate one.org. This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton.
0:43.3	Climate disruption is in the headlines nearly every day,
0:46.3	penetrating deeper into our personal lives.
0:49.3	How do we process the meaning of that?
0:51.3	I actually think what the climate crisis demands of us
0:53.3	is holding to each other tighter
0:56.0	and gripping faster in solidarity and love rather than saying goodbye to each other in death
1:02.0	or in emotional isolation.
1:04.0	And in these uncertain times, how are we weighing the decision of whether or not to bring
1:09.0	more children into the world? On the emotional side, I know I want to have children. I always want it, but on the rational
1:16.0	side, I don't know.
1:18.3	You know, maybe there's no answer, right answer to this ethical debate, but maybe just your
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