How should you bring up baby in the age of climate breakdown? Should you tell them what's happening or not? And given how messed up is the planet we're passing on - is it even fair to *have* kids?

In a YBOC first this episode is a 3-way chat. Dave meets Nina Alexandersen and Sophia Cheng - respectively someone who became a climate activist through fear for her kid's future, and someone whose activism made them very ambivalent about becoming a mum, until something changed.

We talk about all things motherhood and parenthood - like what it does to your brain, and whether you still have as much time to care about things like climate change. And we discuss people who don't want to have kids because of the state of the planet: are they doing the right thing, or missing out on something core to being human?

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Owl noises = references:

• 18:57: More on matrescence. And 19:09: Matrescence, including Lucy Jones, in Time Magazine.
• 20:02: Lucy Jones wrote a brilliant book about foxes.
• 23:33: The (wrong) finite pool of worry hypothesis talked about in this from Vox. And 24.57: Sisco et al take apart the finite pool of worry idea.
• 26.15: Steve Akehurst discusses the importance of keeping climate in the news.
• 29:10: A discussion of Joanna Macy's Three Dimensions of the Great Turning.
• 38:55: Jo McAndrews's work.
• 45:55: Alice Brown, then of the Birthstrike movement, on Sustainababble.

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We vote in our self interest, right? So how come people living on islands disappearing because of climate change - and they know it - keep voting for Donald Trump?

The answer to that goes to the heart of our climate politics. But it also tells us something very important about how different people think about climate change and what should be done about it, even when they can see it literally killing the place they love.

This episode is a fascinating chat with anthropologist Dr Karl Dudman. He talks all about his time spent with the unique communities of Down East, North Carolina - a fiercely proud, strongly Republican, and very maritime patch of the US Coast. Karl explains with empathy how Down Easterners talk about the sea level rises, hurricanes and changing fishing patterns that feels like the last straw in a community whose centuries-old identity is falling apart.

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Owl noises = references:

• 04:33 - Karl's brilliant blog on the Conversation.
• 07:53 - Yale's climate opinion maps.
• 09:33 - Google Maps link to Down East, as if you can't find it yourself.
• 23:48 - Miranda Fricker's epistemic injustice.
• 33:34 - Danna Young's appearance on YBOC.
• 34:18 - more on affective & negative polarisation
• 40:19 - the original paper on solastalgia by Glenn Albrecht et al.
• 40:55 - Arlie Russell Hochschild's majestic Strangers In Their Own Land
• 41:23 - OK I can't find a great link for the aesthetics of embodiment. A bloke explained it to me.
• 42:40 - Revisionist History episode on country vs rock music.
• 44:04 - some stuff about methodological symmetry in here.
• 51:25 - my chat on YBOC with Jonathan Rowson.
• 52:17 - the not uncontroversial original essay by David Goodhart on somewheres vs anywhere.

The show is hosted and produced by me, Dave Powell. You can follow the show on instagram @yourbrainonclimate, and I occasionally put up a Substack.

YBOC theme music and iterations thereof, by me. Show logo by Arthur Stovell at https://mondial-studio.com/.

I'm out in the garden looking for that pile of jobby I found the other day, and it made me think back to my chat in episode 17 with Erica McAlister all about flies (and fleas). Erica is the London Natural History Museum's expert on all things dipeteric (flies) and siphonapteric (fleas), and an extremely funny and nice person too.

Reaching for that fly-killer? WAIT A MINUTE. Must we call kill all pests? (Must we even think of them as pests in the first place?)

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