Misanthropy, suffering and scale

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 it mean to live a good life, and what do we owe each other?”

This chat explores the philosophies of anti and pronatalism, whilst being grounded in examples from the guys’ and Bri’s life. An intentional and judgement free zone, this conversation delves into the morality of should’s and shouldn’ts, and what it means to do the right thing.

As Bri says, hope is something that you earn through action, and we are all feeling a bit more hopeful after this episode. 

0:00 – A Bri-Lee-iant guest
9:42 – The Seed of The Idea
15:08 – What are you grateful for that profoundly changed you?
27:10 – Prioritising love
32:27 – Should I have kids?
41:43 – The morality of shoulds and shouldn’ts
52:43 – Some positivity, please
55:59 – Policy and bodily autonomy
59:22 – So, how’s the reckoning going?
1:03:46 – The weight of responsibility
1:08:43 – Finding action in the overwhelm

📺 to watch this full episode on YouTube, follow this link - https://youtu.be/vUQMkMvyeMY 

🫖Other episodes of The Imperfects mentioned on this episode

• Ryan Shelton - To breed, or not to breed - https://bit.ly/3PbhEmR
• Ann Davidman - Should I have kids? - https://bit.ly/4brc477

📖 Things to read

• Seed, by Bri Lee - https://bit.ly/3PhepKv
• Eggshell Skull, by Bri Lee - https://bit.ly/473kvV4
• Who Gets To Be Smart, by Bri Lee - https://bit.ly/4bwOAh1
• The Work, by Bri Lee - https://bit.ly/4rzflar
• Beauty, by Bri Lee - https://bit.ly/3NMnrPf
• Love 2.0, by Barbara Fredrickson - https://bit.ly/40ylOYp
• Better To Not Have Been, by David Benatar - https://bit.ly/3NmtHx5
• IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - https://bit.ly/3Phc7Lt
• Ipsos Perils of Perception Climate Change - https://bit.ly/4cP32mT

📺Things to watch

• An Inconvenient Truth - https://bit.ly/4bPolUk

💻Things to check out

• Freadom Inside Project - https://bit.ly/4bhVxnm
• Peter Singer Pond Proximity thought experiment - https://youtu.be/Gu-WUHD6mKg

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