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Why I Chose To Have Children In A Broken World

March 11, 2024·1 hr 7 min·5 clips
Emma Petit debunks the viral study claiming having a kid is the biggest carbon footprint, revealing it projects emissions to the year 2400.
Host Chelsea Fagan, who is child-free by choice, interviews climate journalist and mother Emma Petit about the ethical and environmental dilemmas of having children amid climate change. They discuss consumerism, climate despair, the limitations of personal choices, and how to engage in effective political action while navigating personal decisions.

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A child-free-by-choice conversation that opens into climate anxiety and the limits of control.

Chelsea Fagan starts from her familiar child-free-by-choice perspective and lets the discussion move outward into climate change, anxiety, and the limited amount of control people really have.

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For when you want a frank talk about climate dread colliding with the decision to have kids.

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