Is 13 too young for my daughter to decide she doesn't want children?

I’ve always been open with my 13-year-old about the realities of climate catastrophe. She’s the sort of kid who asks questions and initiates difficult conversations. Since the recent UN released a 33-page report summarising the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) latest assessment, we’ve begun talking in terms of plans for the future. I don’t shield her from the facts. I've asked her whether she’s thought about not having children.

I fear my daughter has harder choices than us to make.CREDIT:

At her age, I wasn’t even aware of the concept of climate change. But she can’t afford the luxury of being blissfully ignorant. Time is running out. She performed in a play last year based on Derrick Jensen’s graphic novel As the World Burns. She’s painfully aware of the possibility that her children and grandchildren will have a harder time being alive. And the band-aid banalities coming from politicians and lobby groups are no solutions at all.

Read the story from the story from The Sydney Morning Herald by Katerina Cosgrove - “Is 13 too young for my daughter to decide she doesn't want children?”

'Modify facilities or move Australian Open': health and safety expert

The Australian Open shouldn't be held in January unless changes are made to Melbourne Park to protect players and fans from the searing heat, a health and safety expert has warned.

Players at the Australian
tennis open are suffering,
as are many spectators.

Players and spectators sweltered through 39-degree conditions at Melbourne Park, with 42 degrees the forecast for Friday.

Some clever kids took refuge in the water fountains at Garden Square to beat the heat. Outside courts with shade had spectators sitting out of the sun while courts with no shade were empty.

The crowd of 38,072 was down about 10,000 people on the two previous day-time totals.

Most players looked uncomfortable, but Frenchman Gael Monfils battled the most. He lost to Novak Djokovic on Rod Laver Arena where the on-court temperature was 69 degrees. 

He won the first set but then crumbled, virtually giving up in some points, to lose in four sets.

Read The Sydney Morning Herald story by Gene Efron and Anthony Colangelo - “'Modify facilities or move Australian Open': health and safety expert.”