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Whenever we've done callouts to our listeners for the kinds of stories you want

to hear or subjects you want us to explore there is one topic that comes up

again and again. As we talked about it amongst our team, among our team, as we

talked about it as a team, one of our producers and if you are wondering my

second cousin which is not language I would use I would just say cousin. She

would say second cousin her dad's my cousin. Her name is Claire McEnerney and

Claire said that she is also very interested in this same topic because it has

been top of mind for her for almost a year now. Today Claire is going to share

her anxiety around the idea of having kids and she's going to walk us through

one of the major hang-up she has and many of you have told us you have as she

makes this decision. The fear around bringing children into a world where

climate change is here baby and here and approaching and you know a world

where climate change is. I'm Nora McEnerney and this is terrible thanks for

asking. Should I have kids? In my experience there's three ways people respond

to the question do you want kids? The first I hear is something like yes I've

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