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I’ve had countless conversations with other young women my age who experience this same anxiety. The discussions seem to be geared toward women especially; sometimes it feels like it has become the women’s responsibility to save our climate by choosing to forgo starting families. A woman’s “carbon legacy” is seen to include more than a man’s carbon legacy does. I recognize this, and I know that this conversation is putting emphasis on individuals reducing their personal carbon emissions, when in reality climate change stems from the choices of large oil companies and politicians more than from our individual choices.

And it does not escape my notice that mothers are often the ones on the frontlines of environmental and climate activism. They are the ones who stand up to big oil companies when the health of their children is threatened. Becoming a mother is becoming a fighter, a bird that takes wing when there is a threat too close to her hatchlings to either distract or attack the threat, putting her life in harm’s way to protect her chicks. But even so, when it comes to imagining what my daughter and granddaughter’s lives will be like by the year 2100, I grow fearful.