“(These problems) are not my children’s fault.”
Pollution, the warming of our planet and the exacerbation of extreme weather events affect us all. However, studies have shown that a higher percentage of women tend to be concerned about these issues than men.
But one advocacy group is challenging those gender norms. Founded in 2018, Climate Dads is a group of nearly 800 dads in 20 US cities who care about the environmental future of our planet and push their families to make sustainable choices.
The group started in Philadelphia by parents, Ben Block and Jason Sandman, but has since grown so widespread that they’ve managed to find hundreds of others who share their concern about the effects of climate change as well as their optimism that it’s not too late for our society to reverse course and save the planet. habitable for future generations.
Before releasing “Climate Dads,” Block wrote an open letter to his 10-month-old son, which read in part: “Bringing you into this world was my greatest accomplishment — and now I need to make sure you can move around.” The difficulties that lie ahead. What we need are new belief systems, new traditions, and a new heritage based on environmental ethics. If our generations cooperate, we can definitely find solutions to our environmental problems. “I’m still optimistic.”
“The environmental challenges the world faces are not my children’s fault,” Block told Bloomberg News. “However, I try to meet them where they are – and encourage them to reduce unnecessary consumption, while focusing on toys and games that they will find rewarding in the long run. It’s a fight.”
Despite the seriousness of their mission, the daring climate daddies love to joke about their nerdy obsession with new clean tech products.
“A new kind of dad has just fallen: the climate dad,” Peter Olivier, one of those climate dads, wrote in what would become his Twitter post. mail. “This is in addition to the traditional options of 1) a dad of great wars and 2) a dad of barbecue. If that kind of dad appeals to you, you can now start talking exclusively about heat pumps.
Responses flooded in with other climate parents who “felt seen” by the post.
“This is what we all talk about,” Olivier told Bloomberg, explaining that when he installed the solar panels in his home, “it was like it was the only thing I talked about for three months.”
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