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Emma Pattee: ‘We can't let the kids go outdoors' is our new reality on the West Coast

Emma Pattee: ‘We can't let the kids go outdoors' is our new reality on the West Coast

For children there, it isn’t a question of what you want to do outside; it’s whether it is even safe to leave the house.
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The baby formula shortage is a preview of a coming food crisis

Unless governments transition off fossil fuels and limit global warming, food shortages and famine will become the norm.

Tom Whyman: How can I justify bringing new life into this terrible world?
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Tom Whyman: How can I justify bringing new life into this terrible world?

In a time of COVID-19, climate change and catastrophe, having a baby is an act of radical hope.

Shoshana Meira Friedman: Teaching my child to love a dying world
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Shoshana Meira Friedman: Teaching my child to love a dying world

My toddler son and I spoke about the trees as people — and indeed, for the first month of quarantine, they were the only people besides us he got to see up close.
How should a climate change reporter think about having children?
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How should a climate change reporter think about having children?

Reproduction is a fundamental feature of life on earth, but a morally fraught decision for anyone who has the choice. And there's not even a right answer.

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How climate anxiety is shaping family planning
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How climate anxiety is shaping family planning

The notion of forgoing children as a means of fighting global warming is entering the mainstream.
Melissa Pappas: In this new world of bushfire terror, I question whether I want to have kids
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Melissa Pappas: In this new world of bushfire terror, I question whether I want to have kids

Having fewer children is one of the most effective ways an individual can mitigate climate change.
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