{"id":1497499,"date":"2024-02-13T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenqueen.com.hk\/?p=70897"},"modified":"2024-02-13T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:32:00","slug":"generation-climate-should-global-warming-prevent-you-from-having-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/13\/generation-climate-should-global-warming-prevent-you-from-having-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Generation Climate: Should Global Warming Prevent You From Having Kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Daisy Simmons<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A particular sort of demographic thing was going on for us both \u2014 you know, the finger-wagging around children,\u201d says Meghan Elizabeth Kallman, remembering the period of her life when she met Josephine Ferorelli at a party. It was 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both 30, they bonded quickly over the pain of deciding whether to have children at a time when the climate crisis was bad and getting worse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPeople have been dealing with all this horrible stuff privately. It wasn\u2019t being talked about out in the open, but it was being understood and felt on a personal level,\u201d Ferorelli says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Inspired by shared conviction, the friends soon launched Conceivable Future<\/a>, an organization that aims to bring awareness to the fact that climate change is now a major factor in family planning for many people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now 10 years and hundreds of facilitated conversations in privately hosted house parties later, they\u2019ve written \u201cThe Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change<\/a>,\u201d a book brimming with fresh insight on how reproductive issues are intricately linked with climate change. It also grapples with the dark side of \u201cpopulation control\u201d rhetoric, which disproportionately tasks those who can get pregnant with solving the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n