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Bri Lee - Babies+Climate=Anxiety

3/22/20261 hr 21 min

Is climate anxiety affecting your decision to have kids?

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Joining us in the Vulnerabilitea House is Bri Lee; prolific author, advocate and change maker.

Answering the question, “what moment from your life are you grateful for that profoundly changed you?”, Bri talks about the research that lead her to the South Pole, and how she learnt to prioritise love above all else.

Bri asks the question to Hugh, Josh and Ryan, “what does...

Clips

Showing 10 of 11
Earn Hope Through Action
Antarctica’s Hard-Won Wisdom
Choice Stolen By Climate
What Actually Cuts Emissions
Sentencing Isn’t The Answer
The Carbon Footprint Myth
Two Questions Of Our Time
Everyday Courage Over Heroics
Freedom Inside Begins
Where Antinatalism Falls Short

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First 90 seconds

  1. Bri Lee· Guest0:00

    Hope is something that you earn through action. People wait to feel better so that they can then act.

  2. Ryan Shelton· Host0:07

    Mm.

  3. Bri Lee· Guest0:08

    All my life, it is the acting that has allowed me to feel better.

  4. Ryan Shelton· Host0:12

    Highlighted within the spotlight of the Me Too movement, Bree became a voice for victim survivors around the country. Bree's latest book, Seed, is a fictional novel which grapples with climate anxiety, value-based living, and the prospect of having children in an unsustainable world.

  5. Bri Lee· Guest0:28

    It's not necessarily that I wanted kids. What I wanted was the freedom to make that choice for myself- Yeah ... free of climate anxiety, and I will never experience that. Humans are capable of extraordinary courage and generosity when they are motivated by love. Where that seems to fail is when humans exist at the scale and rate of growth that they currently are, and when we cannot sort of see the impacts of our actions. What does it mean to live a good life?

  6. Ryan Shelton· Host1:06

    Mm, yeah.

  7. Bri Lee· Guest1:06

    And what do we owe each other? If you change the world for one person, you've changed the world for them. Just because you're not the hero that gets to blow himself up in the planet, doesn't mean you can't save the world.

  8. Hugh van Cuylenburg· Host1:17

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