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The Quickening Antarctica, Motherhood, and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World

Elizabeth Rush

An NPR Best Book of the Year In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the

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The Matt Walsh Show

The host described the book as exploring the paradox of wanting to create life while fearing its climate impact, noting its Antarctic backdrop and the author's personal reflections on procreation.

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One of them is called The Quickening and it was written by a journalist who spent some time with scientists in Antarctica.

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The host described the book as exploring the paradox of wanting to create life while fearing its climate impact, noting its Antarctic backdrop and the author's personal reflections on procreation.

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One of them is called The Quickening and it was written by a journalist who spent some time with scientists in Antarctica.

The central paradox of The Quickening is the private urge toward the creation of human life coexisting with intimations of its imminent destruction.

Should I have a child, their greenhouse gas emissions will cause roughly 50 square meters of sea ice to melt every year that they're alive, Rush writes.

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