Being pregnant in a climate emergency was an existential challenge. Miscarriage has brought a new grief | Gemma Carey

The bushfires turned an abstract fear into a concrete reality. Having lived on the frontlines of climate collapse, I’m not sure I will choose to get pregnant again

On Boxing Day I had an article published about being pregnant in a climate emergency. It was about the conflicting and contradictory emotions many of us are forced to hold if we choose to take the leap of faith of bringing a child into the world in the midst of climate collapse.

At the time I wrote that piece, the smoke came and went. Occasionally we caught snippets of blue sky.

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