How I’m Managing Eco-Anxiety As A New Parent!
Balancing Action & Self-Care Within The Wake Of Global Warming
My daughter only agreed to be six days old whenever a heavy blanket of toxic smoke descended on the home town of Portland. I had been conscious of the wildfires devouring areas of California and Or, but we’d rarely felt any substantial effects from all of these disasters just before 2020.
Bleary-eyed from lack of sleep, I looked the window in the gray-orange sky as i nursed our baby and my hubby anxiously recorded up our home windows and hearth to avoid smoke from getting inside. He produced a makeshift air cleaner utilizing a box fan and furnace filters (thanks to YouTube) when i obsessively checked the quality of air Index application.
There is the immediate stress of attempting to safeguard our daughter’s newbor...