“STOP having babies – it’s a climate crisis.”
Should you have children if climate change is about to ravish the earth? Is a birth strike the answer, or are things a little more complicated than that?
Sources below, don't miss those :)
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Suggested further reading:
‘Never Let Me Go’ by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)
‘The Breaks’ by Julietta Singh (2021)
‘Motherhood’ by Sheila Heti (2018)
‘Notes From An Apocalypse’ by Mark O'Connell (2020)
Other sources:
‘The four lifestyle choices that most reduce your carbon footprint’ by Lund University
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/arti...
‘What are the most powerful climate actions you can take? The expert view’ by Damian Carrington for The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environme...
‘The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions’ by Seth Wynes and Kimberly A Nicholas
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
‘The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation’ by Charles C. Mann for Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innova...
‘1% of English residents take one-fifth of overseas flights, survey shows’ by Niko Kommenda for The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environme...
‘Population panic lets rich people off the hook for the climate crisis they are fuelling’ by George Monbiot for The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
‘World Agriculture Towards 2030/2050’ by Nikos Alexandratos and Jelle Bruinsma
https://www.fao.org/4/ap106e/ap106e.pdf
‘There’s a population crisis all right. But probably not the one you think’ by George Monbiot for The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
‘MEAT ATLAS: Facts and figures about the animals we eat’ by Friends of the Earth
https://friendsoftheearth.eu/wp-conte...
The old painting featured at 12:54 is: ‘A Fete at Bermondsey’ c.1570 by Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600), Hatfield House, Hertfordshire
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