EARTH MOTHER.

IDEAS Dread, Britt Wray grapples with the ethics and emotions of bearing new life in a dying world Science, technology, trends, art, books, personalities, ephemera … THE PLANET IS, quite literally, on fire: a third of humanity is now exposed to deadly heat stress. Prior to publishing her book, Wray delivered a 2019 TED Talk outlining the effects of climate change on mental health "So, okay, middle-class white girl is afraid because the world doesn't feel safe anymore. In one intense 24-hour period in Denmark, Wray engaged in an emotional late-night talk with friends about the magnitude of the climate crisis, burst into tears with another friend at breakfast the next morning, and dined with her father-in-law as he made polite but insistent inquiries about grandchildren. Yet Anishinaabe author Waubgeshig Rice, author of the climate-crisis thriller Moon of the Crusted Snow, told Wray he didn't know of anyone from his Wasauksing First Nation, 250 kilometres north ofToronto, who'd decided against having kids for environmental reasons. [Extracted from the article]

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