ampampquotThis reassuring consideration of a deeply personal matter teams seamlessly with a reasoned emphatic call to action.ampampquot Booklist Starred Review ampampbull ABooklist Top 10 Book on the Environment ampampamp Sustainability 2024 ampampbull Winner Nellie Bly Book Award for journalistic nonfiction Chanticleer International Book Awards 2024Explore the ways in which the climate crisis is affecting our personal decisions about family planning parenting and political action.In The Conceivable Future authors Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli explore the ways in which the climate crisis is affecting our personal decisions about family planning parenting and political action. This book offers fresh timely answers to questions such as How do I decide to have a baby when thereampamp39s the threat of environmental collapse How do I parent a child in the middle of the climate crisis What can I actually do to help stop global warmingDrawing from their decade of work with the organization Conceivable Future Kallman a sociologist and Rhode Island State Senator and Ferorelli an activist and former Climate Bureau editor offers both informed perspective and practical steps for taking meaningful action in combating the climate crisis while also making smart balanced decisions when it comes to starting and maintaining a family.First The Conceivable Future explores what the real threats are to reproductive gestational and infant health spoiler itampamp39s inequality heat and fossil fueled pollution and debunks the myths of personal carbon footprint and the harmful legacy of population control. The authors examine the successes and impediments of womenled movements around the world and share what theyampamp39ve learned through ten years of organizing to bring attention to the reproductive crisis that is climate change.Finally the book looks at what can be done about the climate crisis today.