Graduate student, Emma Spett, believes it's wise to be deliberate about bringing children into the world. Emma raises important questions like: "Why does everyone need their own genetic offspring to be fulfilled?" "Is freedom to choose more important than the sustained existence of our ecological and human systems?"
Emma has also shared her concerns in commentary published by Having Kids and Parenting in the Anthropocene. She is a graduate student at the University of Vermont in Community Development and Applied Economics and a fellow at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics.
This episode was published June 13th, 2018.
Links:
Parenting in the Anthropocene by Emma Spett
Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene by Roy Scranton
We're Doomed. Now What? by Roy Scranton
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization by Roy Scranton
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