Is Climate Change a Reason to Avoid Having Children? and Other Listener Questions Answered
About this episode
This episode is the show's long-awaited 'Ask Me Anything' installment, with producer Annie Galvin putting listener questions to Klein. The most popular question, asked repeatedly over the years, is whether climate change is a reason not to have children; Klein answers that it mistakes a collective problem for an individual one — the solution is electrification and politics, not personal guilt. Other questions cover the congressional UFO/UAP hearings, Elon Musk's Twitter bid and Trump's potential return to the platform, whether 'wokeness' is hurting Democrats (he thinks not), Biden's age and 2024, his biggest disagreement with Tyler Cowen, why liberals struggle to build things despite holding power (environmental review, administrative law, outsourced expertise), graduates flowing into consulting and finance, his skepticism about free will, and reading and music recommendations including Neil Postman and Sally Rooney.