What can you do, personally, to help urgently address climate change? #1: Talk about it. Whenever you can. With anyone who will listen. Talking builds up support for radical action, and nourishes a culture that will make the changes we need inevitable.https://grist.org/briefly/groundbreaking-study-outlines-what-you-can-do-about-climate-change/ …
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Thanks for this, Aura. This list was developed by
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There are people of color in Europe, too. Did this chart mean that white people should have less children (which, by the way, I also disagree with)? If so, it should be clear about that.
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I think a better framing than "having one fewer child" which I agree is a bit genocidal, is
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White people going to Kenya with the explicit goal of “educating” women into sterilization is absolutely disgusting. This isn’t empowerment. It’s, as you say, genocidal.
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Let’s make a projection where every single woman in Kenya has zero children starting today for the next twenty years. Mesnwile, the U.S. military continues to pollute at its current rate. What has been solved?
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Why blame the problem of climate change on black women’s bodies on the side of the planet instead of looking at how much fossil fuel the Pentagon burned in the last ten minutes alone? Why this fixation on African women to solve a problem they didn’t create?
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Hi Aura, the full study is here (pdf free to download). The study is specifically and only aimed at developed countries, because that's where most of the pollution is created. So the "avoided" children are those of high consuming populations only. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541/meta …
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The original study is here (the one above only cites it). I must say I didn't like that study then, and I still don't. Emissions track with expenditure: if a wealthy family has fewer kids, those kids will just have more wealth each, total emissions same. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959378008001003?via%3Dihub …
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