Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question

Jade Sasser, PhD
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Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question

Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question takes a deep dive into exploring all of the emotions that come along with the climate crisis, from eco-anxiety, grief and fear, to motivation, optimism, and excitement. Join us as we explore these emotions and delve into the complicated questions they raise around whether, when, and why we are birthing and/or raising children (or not) in this climate-altered landscape. How do you feel about the climate crisis? Do your climate emotions shape your decisions about being, or becoming a parent? Whatever your experience, there’s something for you in this podcast. Let’s get into it!

  1. JUN 12

    Episode 9 (Podcast finale): A Mother's Climate Activism

    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).

    28 min

  2. MAY 22

    Episode 8: Climate cafés and intersectional activism

    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.

    29 min

  3. MAY 1

    Episode 7: Climate change, mental health, and parenting as a commitment to joy

    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.

    29 min
  4. Bonus Book Trailer: Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future

    APR 18

    Bonus Book Trailer: Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future

    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.

    2 min

  5. APR 3

    Episode 6: All of the emotions, and activism too

    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.

    26 min

  6. MAR 20

    Episode 5: On stepparenting and stewardship

    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).

    26 min

  7. MAR 6

    Episode 4: An elected official and new mother speaks up

    In this episode, I talk to Denise, who is a city council member and new mother. She breaks down how she developed more awareness of (and anxiety about) climate change and air quality issues when she became a mother, and how she is using her position in local government to effect change.

    27 min

  8. FEB 21

    Episode 3: No More Struggle Narratives

    In this episode, I talk to Finn, an 18-year old climate activist and high school student, about why all generations should step up to the climate fight, and the need to move past struggle narratives and find ways to create strong, intentional communities, with or without children.

    29 min
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Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question takes a deep dive into exploring all of the emotions that come along with the climate crisis, from eco-anxiety, grief and fear, to motivation, optimism, and excitement. Join us as we explore these emotions and delve into the complicated questions they raise around whether, when, and why we are birthing and/or raising children (or not) in this climate-altered landscape. How do you feel about the climate crisis? Do your climate emotions shape your decisions about being, or becoming a parent? Whatever your experience, there’s something for you in this podcast. Let’s get into it!

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