Season One Promo: Parenting in a Climate Changed World

Ben Yosua-Davis and Nicole Diroff are the hosts of the new Climate Changed podcast. They also have something else in common. They are both parents.

Ben is a father to two amazing children. Michael, is his six year-old creative social butterfly. Genevieve is his sweet and ferocious two year old."

Nicole is a mother to a second grader.

Parenting comes with so many unique joys and challenges, and parenting in a climate-changed world in particular, raises so many questions for us. 

• As our children are discovering the wonders of the natural world, How much do we tell them about the ecological disasters happening all around us?
• How do we create space for their grief and anger?
• How do we prepare them to live in a world that is already different from the one we knew as children?
• How do we raise resilient children who are prepared for the trauma that’s predicted for their lifetimes?
• How do we instill in them empathy and love for all earthlings? 

As parents, Christians, citizens, and friends, we talk a lot about these issues, so we decided to bring others into the conversation. 

In the first season of Climate Changed we connect with thought leaders, ministers, activists, and other parents who are considering similar questions. 

People like

• Corina Newsome, one of co-organizers of the inaugural #BlackBirdersWeek
• Keyana Pardilla, a young Penobscot woman in Maine who connects modern science with ancient indigenous practices
• Pacific Islander and poet Craig Santos-Perez
• Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, a pastor, gardener, and spiritual entrepreneur within the African Methodist Episcopal tradition

We do not pretend to have all the answers. In fact, we have many more questions than answers - but we want to share them with you, and invite you to join us, as we wrestle with these big issues. 

Subscribe today to Climate Changed Podcast, wherever you get your podcasts. Season one premieres June 2022.

The Climate Changed podcast is a project of The BTS Center in beautiful Portland, Maine.

Episode 1: How Do We Stop Doing Things that Make No Sense? With Rev. Mariama White-Hammond

Episode 2: Where Do You Find Hope? With Corina Newsome

Episode 3: What Do We Tell the Children? With Craig Santos Perez

Episode 4: What is Wrong with Me? With Keyana Pardilla, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Sherri Mitchell

Episode 5: If I Can’t Make a Difference, then What Do I Do? With Veronice Miles

Episode 6: Daddy, Did We Hurt Them? With Ben Yosua-Davis