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Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question

Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question

By: Jade Sasser PhD
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Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question takes a deep dive into exploring all of the emotions that come along with the climate crisis, from eco-anxiety, grief and fear, to motivation, optimism, and excitement. Join us as we explore these emotions and delve into the complicated questions they raise around whether, when, and why we are birthing and/or raising children (or not) in this climate-altered landscape. How do you feel about the climate crisis? Do your climate emotions shape your decisions about being, or becoming a parent? Whatever your experience, there’s something for you in this podcast. Let’s get into it!

Jade Sasser 2023 Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Episode 9 (Podcast finale): A Mother's Climate Activism

    Episode 9 (Podcast finale): A Mother's Climate Activism
    Jun 12 2024

    In this, the final (!) episode of the podcast, I talk to Elizabeth: a mother, climate activist, and mental health researcher. All of those roles come together for her in important ways in everyday life, and she has thoughts to share on how other parents can become engaged in climate activism, even if they have no free time. Thanks for listening for the past 2 seasons! For more discussion on this topic, please read Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future (UC Press, 2024).
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    28 mins
  • Episode 8: Climate cafés and intersectional activism

    Episode 8: Climate cafés and intersectional activism
    May 22 2024

    In this episode, I talk to Maksim about climate change-related mental health, the goal of climate cafés, and why brining one's full intersectional identity to the issues is so important. We also explore the intersectionality of the kid question.
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    29 mins
  • Episode 7: Climate change, mental health, and parenting as a commitment to joy

    Episode 7: Climate change, mental health, and parenting as a commitment to joy
    May 1 2024

    In this episode, I talk to Britt, a climate mental health expert and new mother. She helped me form my earliest understanding of climate emotions and mental health impacts, and how they intersect with reproductive anxieties. And she has wisdom to impart about how to manage climate emotions, and why having a child is her way of committing to joy and rejecting fear.
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    29 mins
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