OPINION: There's an unexpected glimmer of hope in Christmas, even as Australia burns
Christmas is often scorching in Australia, but summer has never left such an acrid sting of smoke in my throat.wrong: the ash in the air, that everything is"business as usual" under the feverish light of an orange sun, my five-year-old boy wondering why the world burns.
And even if producing heirs is non-negotiable, the younger British Royals seem to have one eye on their brood's ecological footprint, with Harry and Meghan telling Vogue they would have no more than two children for the sake of the planet. To some, this is just the panicked overreaction of a vocal minority, a cautionary tale about the dangers of too much disaster in the media diet. To others, it overstates the impact of being childfree, given that climate change goes far beyond our individual choices.But the future need not be so grim, even if"it is worse, much worse, than you think".
The litany of disasters he foretells is enough to warn anyone off blithe baby making. But he has surprising views on bearing children. He even had one, Rocca, while writing his book.
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