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Parenting and the Climate Crisis
Is there rational hope for our small children?
The irony of writing parenting articles when the world is collapsing is not lost on me.
At the back of my mind as I draft articles on breastfeeding, weaning, homeschooling, and other evergreen topics, I wonder how evergreen they can truly be if the earth itself no longer is.
Right now, I’m comfortably typing this away while enjoying a simple lunch of sundried fish and tomatoes. It’s a rare moment for me as a home-based mom to a toddler and a grade-schooler. To buy time for quiet, I let the toddler crush cookies and play with the crumbs while his sister is being busied by a video game. With both of them occupied, I steal a moment to think and write.
Thus, I blissfully type away and enjoy my fish and tomatoes while fascism rules my country, while the delta variant surges, while the sea rises and threatens to inundate my city by 2030.
In fact, the entire planet is right on track for predicted collapse by 2040.
Heat domes are emerging in deadly pockets as summer floods sweep other places away. On the economic and socio-cultural level, billionaires build luxury bunkers and race to Mars, while the rest of us give in to apathy or paralysis in the face of doom like deer in the headlights.
