A university graduate from Australia recently told ABC’s Q&A that she is ‘scared’ to bear children, owing to her concern for climate change.
Melbourne resident Alice Trumble, an audience member on ABC’s Q&A, said that she started suffering from ‘climate anxiety’ some years back, after completing her college degree.
“I have studied environmental and climate science, I came to the conclusion that it was unsafe, unethical probably and just a bad choice for me to make to bring children into the world,” Alice said on Monday.
“I would really like a family but I’m way too scared to do it.”
Alice further told that she did everything in her power to get rid of the anxiety and that she really does want to have a family but fails to justify having one because of her concerns for the environment.
Osher Gunsberg, the Bachelor Host and panelist with Q&A, replied to Alice’s comments, saying that he also has ‘incredible climate anxiety.’
“I had episodes of psychosis that manifested as paranoid delusions. I was on two different kinds of antipsychotics and was seeing things,” said Osher.
“You’re not alone and when you know what you know, it’s a completely ordinary normal reaction to have when you look at what is coming,” he added.
Osher asked Alice to reconsider her take on the environment change issue and proceed to bear children. He told that he had his son a while back and his birth gave him ‘hope.’
“What can we build for this child? Please, the world needs your child in it, because you think about it. Please,” Osher continued.
People already know Alice for her notion of living on a ‘meat free’ diet to have a positive impact on the environment.
The young graduate said a thoughtful selection of what we eat is one of the most ‘impactful’ ways by which we can reduce the hazardous environmental footprint.
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