Jade Sasser
Appearances
Short Wave
Nature Quest: The Climate-Kid Question
The consensus among environmentalists for a long time has been that population growth is bad for the environment because it means that more human beings on the planet will consume more resources and there will be less available for all of us and that we will all suffer as a result. And it has been proven wrong by scientists over and over again.
Short Wave
Nature Quest: The Climate-Kid Question
He said the poor had too many children. And if the government supported them with food, they would never stop having too many children. So his argument was to let them starve and die out.
Short Wave
Nature Quest: The Climate-Kid Question
It is, in fact, according to environmental psychologists, quite normal to feel deeply anxious about these changes in our environment. There's nothing wrong with the feeling of climate anxiety or being reproductively anxious in response.
Short Wave
Nature Quest: The Climate-Kid Question
I think it's really important to reframe that narrative and understand this is a large scale social, political and structural problem. And when we take these on as personal problems or individual problems that we suffer with in silence, it actually lets our leaders off the hook and they should be on the hook.