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Emily's avatar

I want to scream like Annie Edison when nobody has her purple pen when NONE of these articles mention CLIMATE CHANGE! We have heard over and over again that we're past the point of no return, at the very best we could make things ... bearable? And I'm supposed to, as someone who is supposedly more innately loving/gentle/maternal, want to bring someone into that world where they are almost guaranteed to suffer, because no Boomer in Congress wants to appear anti-business? Like you mention in #2 - there is a difference between a "fear" of the end of the world (i.e. the Cold War) and YEARS of actual scientific evidence pointing towards it.

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Antonia Malchik's avatar

The point about this being a reckoning more than a crisis should reverberate across the world. At the very least it should be repeated over and over. What a great piece this is! I also think we should never stop repeating the obvious fact: plenty of people in power, like several state legislatures, have no interest in women's autonomy. They fundamentally believe women *should* be bearing children and staying home to take care of them, leading to punishing policies that make it ever more difficult to have children, work, and develop a healthy family life that balances everyone's needs. We're struggling against a deep-rooted faith.

It's also telling that'd despite many scientific studies further linking declining fertility rates to chemical load, the idea that our environment might be a factor is rarely discussed. Shanna Swan's book "Countdown" is pretty explicit on this subject: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Count-Down/Shanna-H-Swan/9781982113667

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