If you’re a parent — as I am — the climate predicament takes on an additional dimension. You have to wonder not just about the ethics of raising children in an unstable world.
My toddler son and I spoke about the trees as people — and indeed, for the first month of quarantine, they were the only people besides us he got to see up close.
A broad body of research shows that systemic racism makes Black parents and their babies more likely to experience adverse birth outcomes than white parents and babies.
