Podcast: Population and climate change
If we want to fight climate change should we have fewer children – or should we be focusing more on reducing consumption? Is the answer different depending on where you live in the world? And in any case, how might we make people and politicians engage with this issue?
Those are just some of the questions Guardian supporters asked deputy membership editor Vicky Frost to put to our panel in this edition of We Need to Talk About. She is joined by Damian Carrington, the Guardian’s environment editor; Lucy Lamble, the Guardian’s executive editor for global development; John Vidal, the multi-award winning former Guardian environment editor; and Afua Hirsch, a writer and broadcaster for the Guardian and Sky News among others, who has also worked in international development and the law.
We also hear from Kimberly Nicholas, a senior lecturer at Lund University, Sweden, who was part of a team whose research has attempted to quantify the environmental impact of having a child. (You can read the Guardian’s report on this work here.)
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