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?”

Scientists suggest a giant sunshade in the sky could solve global warming

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: the creation, using balloons or jets, of a manmade atmospheric sunshade to shield the most vulnerable countries in the global south against the worst effects of global warming.

Solar geoengineering has been floated as an
‘outlandish and unsettling’ answer to climate change.

But amid mounting interest in “solar geoengineering” – not least among western universities – a group of scientists from developing countries has issued a forceful call to have a greater say in the direction of research into climate change, arguing that their countries are the ones with most at stake.

Scientists have long known that manmade events like pollution in the atmosphere, smoke from forest fires and volcanic eruptions can create a cooling effect.

Read the story from The Guardian by Peter Beaumont - “Scientists suggest a giant sunshade in the sky could solve global warming.”