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

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.

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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 do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."

- Matthew 6:1-6

All quotes from the King James Version