[Sehefac] Jade is in the LA Times!

[Dana Simmons]

Dear SEHE affiliates,
SEHE faculty member Jade Sasser makes a timely and critical intervention in
this article, "Boiling Point: Is it ethical to have children in the face of
climate change?
<https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2024-08-29/boiling-point-is-it-ethical-to-have-children-in-the-face-of-climate-change-boiling-point>
"

“What Gen Z tends to know, more so than other generations, is that
population growth doesn’t cause climate change — that consumption of
resources, production of oil and gas, cutting down of forests, these things
cause climate change, and they are not necessarily driven by human
numbers,” Sasser said. “They’re driven by politics, policies and
inequitable consumption patterns in the world."
..."Women, of course, have never been alone in creating families — but the
duty, the burden, the responsibility, the questions of agency, have always
been unevenly and unfairly placed onto women,” she said. “And it is
absolutely not a coincidence, and highly ironic, that these issues are
coming together in such an important way — requiring women to take on an
undue burden around these questions of whether or not to have children in
this salient moment, and being mocked for it by people like JD Vance
referring to women as as ‘childless cat ladies’ if they opt not to have
kids.”

Thank you for making this point, Jade!
Dana
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Dana Simmons
Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment and
Health Equity
Cooperating Faculty, Department of History
University of California, Riverside
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