If I have no hope for the planet, why am I so determined to have this baby? | Gemma Carey

I wonder if my child will ever have the innocence I had two months ago, of not having to think about whether the air will kill you

Sitting, nauseous with morning sickness, on a park bench in the bright heat of an unusually hot spring day my partner and I watch children march past us, striking from school:

“What’s the point of an education if we have no future,” their signs say.

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