The Politics of Climate Change Parenting

(This article was first published in the January 2019 edition of Community Alliance, http://www.alliance.com.)

Joaquin Arambula and Miguel Arias are not the leaders we’re looking for

By Kevin Hall

Parents worldwide are faced with far greater fears and challenges today than at any time in history. They have the enormous responsibility for children’s lives, people they have chosen to bring into a world with a rapidly destabilizing climate. It’s a shared responsibility, of course, because at this point anyone under the age of 50 cannot count on having a stable climate in their old age.

Nearly 20 million people were climate refugees in 2018, according to U.N. estimates. Internally dislocated people, from hurricane victims in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Continue reading The Politics of Climate Change Parenting