Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question Jade Sasser, PhD

In this, the final (!) episode of the podcast, I talk to Elizabeth: a mother, climate activist, and mental health researcher. All of those roles come together for her in important ways in everyday life, and she has thoughts to share on how other parents can become engaged in climate activism, even if they have no free time. Thanks for listening for the past 2 seasons! For more discussion on this topic, please read Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future (UC Press, 2024).

In this episode, I talk to Maksim about climate change-related mental health, the goal of climate cafés, and why brining one's full intersectional identity to the issues is so important. We also explore the intersectionality of the kid question.

In this episode, I talk to Britt, a climate mental health expert and new mother. She helped me form my earliest understanding of climate emotions and mental health impacts, and how they intersect with reproductive anxieties. And she has wisdom to impart about how to manage climate emotions, and why having a child is her way of committing to joy and rejecting fear.

This is a brief trailer to announce my new book: Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future, now available everywhere you buy books. To receive 30% off, purchase at www.ucpress.edu, and enter the code UCPSAVE30.

In this episode, I talk to Natalie, an 18 year old college student and climate justice activist. She talks about navigating climate despair through her connections to nature and other climate activists, as well as maintaining a sense of optimism about having children in the future.

In this episode, I talk to Aaliyah, a new stepmother who draws on her Sustainability Studies degree and indigenous heritage to forge her approach to stepparenting, now and in the future. Also: I advertise my new book: Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future (out April 9th).