REWIND: Should We Have Children in a Climate Emergency?

Published: Feb. 4, 2022, 8:01 a.m.

b'The climate crisis seems to be unfolding faster than ever before \\u2014 with catastrophic floods, winter wildfires, and last summer\\u2019s killer heat. It\\u2019s becoming increasingly hard to mentally set climate aside as a future problem \\u2014 it is here, real in our present moment.\\xa0\\nHow 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?\\nGuests:\\nDaniel Sherrell, Author, Warmth, Coming of Age at the End of Our World\\nSeb Gould, physics teacher\\nIr\\xe8ne Mathieu, pediatrician and poet\\nVirginie Le Masson, co-director of the Centre for Gender and Disaster at University College London\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'