Reversing Climate Change

334: Is Adopting Children a Climate Solution?—w/ Lauren Gifford, Brandon Bowersox-Johnson, & Chris Tolles

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It is sometimes claimed that adoption could be a climate solution. After all, if there are kids needing parents and parents wanting kids, adopting might replace the desire to create more children. Is adoption something we should encourage to reduce environmental risk? Today we have four(!) parents of adopted children on the podcast. Each of them tells their story at the start of the show, including: Ross Kenyon, Reversing Climate Change host Lauren Gifford, Associate Director of the Soil Carbon Solutions Center Brandon Bowersox-Johnson, Carbon Technical Project Manager at Grassroots Carbon Chris Tolles, CEO and Cofounder of Yard Stick PBC Then we all discuss if and how adopting children could or should fit into one's vision of climate activism. This was a fun and big show to do! I hope you enjoy the change-up in format. Resources Here are the verses from the Bible that are referenced: "...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." - Philippians 2:12 "Take heed that ye d