{"id":255746,"date":"2023-05-03T12:09:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=255746"},"modified":"2023-05-03T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T10:09:50","slug":"the-conversation-is-acting-on-climate-change-as-important-as-love-and-bedtime-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=255746","title":{"rendered":"The Conversation: \u201cIs acting on climate change as important as love and bedtime stories?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c\u2026 if parents do nothing, they fail their children \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What makes a good parent? Is acting on climate change as important as love and bedtime stories?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craig Stanbury, Monash University<\/em>
Published: May 2, 2023 6.00am AEST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What makes a good parent? Most would say a good parent loves and nurtures their child with the ultimate aim of helping them flourish \u2013 now and into the future. A good parent will feed their child, give them space to play and time to use their imagination, make sure they get an education and medical care, listen to their troubles, and teach them to one day be autonomous adults. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, does being a good parent involve anything more than this? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her book, Parenting on Earth<\/a>, philosopher and mother Elizabeth Cripps argues that to do right by their kids, parents must also attempt to do something about the problems caused by climate change.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cripps does not claim that it will be possible to do this all the time. (Climate action needs to be balanced against other duties involved in raising a child.) It may seem futile at times. But, if parents do nothing, they fail their children.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/theconversation.com\/amp\/what-makes-a-good-parent-is-acting-on-climate-change-as-important-as-love-and-bedtime-stories-202349<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The suggestion that climate activism is as important as love is not only absurd, in my opinion it is dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If climate activism is as important as love, then parents who don\u2019t show the expected level of commitment to climate activism are unfit parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following was written by Tim Flannery in 2019;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why \u2018predatory\u2019 climate deniers are a threat to our children<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim Flannery<\/a> 17 September 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this age of rapidly melting glaciers<\/a>, terrifying megafires<\/a> and ever more puissant hurricanes<\/a>, of acidifying<\/a> and rising<\/a> oceans, it is hard to believe that any further prod to climate action is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My children, and those of many prominent polluters and climate denialists, will probably live to be part of that grim winnowing<\/a> \u2013 a world that the Alan Joneses<\/a> and Andrew Bolts<\/a> of the world have laboured so hard to create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How should Australia\u2019s parents deal with those who labour so joyously to create a world in which a large portion of humanity will perish? As I have become ever more furious at the polluters and denialists, I have come to understand they are threatening my children\u2019s well-being as much as anyone who might seek to harm a child.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/why-predatory-climate-deniers-are-a-threat-to-our-children-39767\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Flannery shies away from articulating the logical conclusion of his suggestion that \u201cpredatory\u201d climate deniers are harming their own children and the children of others, but it seems pretty obvious where this is headed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless we challenge this outrageous narrative, it is only a matter of time until some deep green politician advances a plan to \u201crescue\u201d children from those unfit climate denier parents, by placing \u201cpredatory deniers\u201d into the same legal category as pedophiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unless we challenge this outrageous narrative, it is only a matter of time until some deep green politician advances a plan to \u201crescue\u201d children from those unfit climate denier parents, by placing \u201cpredatory deniers\u201d into the same legal category as pedophiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":255754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691818920,691819277],"class_list":{"0":"post-255746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-climate-deniers","10":"tag-deep-green-politician","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/0AdobeStock_123574115.jpeg?fit=1920%2C1281&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-14wW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":210011,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=210011","url_meta":{"origin":255746,"position":0},"title":"Climate change: How to talk to a denier","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/24\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Seems like only\u00a0yesterday\u00a0John was answering a particularly\u00a0absurd piece of propaganda\u00a0hiding shamelessly on the BBC News homepage ready to ambush anyone who happened by wondering what was happening in the world, i.e. someone looking for actual\u00a0news. 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