[Sehefac] Jade is in the LA Times!

[Juliann Allison]

Perfect response - thoughtful, nuanced, accurate.
Thank you!
Juliann

*Juliann Emmons Allison *
*(she/her/hers)*
*Professor, ​Society, Environment & Health Equity*
*Director, Global Studies Program*
*Faculty Chair, Campus Sustainability Committee*
*Most Recent Publications: *
*​Unsustainable: Amazon, Warehousing, & the Politics of
Exploitation, co-authored with Ellen Reese. University of California
Press.​**"What Happens when Amazon Comes to Town: Environmental Impacts,
Local Economies, and Resistance in Inland Southern California." The Cost of
Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy, pp. 176-193.** Ed. by Jake
Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese Pluto Press, 2020. **"The Energy Politics
of the United States." Handbook of Energy Politics​, co-edited
with​ Kathleen J. Hancock. Oxford University Press, 2020.*


On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 8:37 AM Tabassum Khan via Sehefac <
sehefac at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:

> She is brilliant!!! As always.
>
> Tabassum "Ruhi" Khan
> Associate Professor Media and Cultural Studies
> University of California Riverside
> Riverside, CA 92521
>
> Tel: 951 827 1389
>
> Beyond Hybridity and Fundamentalism: Emerging Muslim Identity in
> Globalized India - Oxford University Press (2015)
>
> https://global.oup.com/academic/product/beyond-hybridity-and-fundamentalism-9780199453610?cc=ca&lang=en&
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 8:31 PM Dana Simmons via Sehefac <
> sehefac at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> --
>> 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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