[Sehefac] Jade is in the LA Times!

[Michelle Raheja]

Brilliant response and a critical intervention.

Best,
Michelle

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 9:57 AM Jade Sasser via Sehefac <
sehefac at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:

> Thanks everyone!
>
> Jade S. Sasser, PhD
> Associate Professor
> University of California, Riverside
> jadesasserphd.com
>
> On Sep 3, 2024, at 9:18 AM, Gloria Kim via Sehefac <sehefac at lists.ucr.edu>
> wrote:
>
> 
> Beautiful response!
>  Thank you Jade!!
>
> Gloria
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 12:05 PM Juliann Allison via Sehefac <
> sehefac at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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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