Find a wife get married and up having kids when i 1st met lonnie she kind of told me that having kids wasnt something that she was really that interested him you know i thought thats fine im good not having kids and 10 years later 14 years later you know to me it was one of the best decisions that weve made no regrets really really happy to be childfree by choice raising a child can be stressful so from from our standpoint i think another one of the possible in our relationship we get to spend more time connecting with each other and i think that thats you know for us its really important relationship i dont know necessarily that one relationship or one style of relationship is going to be good or the other because i think theres you know some people that have kids and that is the whole life and that actually brings people closer together but then in the same instance theres people who have kids and it kind of drove drives away. Between them because they dont get to have that quality t
This is. One of the most important issues if not the most important issue that humanity needs to be talking about. And we had nobody wants to talk about it because everybodys scared to talk about it Everybody Knows that its a you know an emotional issue and such a personal you know subject. And people are scared so people just dont talk about it and thats sad but. In our Species Survival is truly dependent on us addressing this issue and if we cant even talk about it if we can even have a conversation about it then. Were in trouble. When i was studying biology at the university of california in san diego i had a bio chemistry professor that one day came into class and told all the students to close their books and said were not going to talk about biochemistry today were going to watch a film about population and i was probably about 20 years old and i remember just being completely devastated by what i learned in that film and i walked across the entire campus talking to my professor
As a mum i think about what would i do if i had to send my child to School Every Day alongside a field where i knew they were spraying pesticides but i didnt know when and i didnt know what. We require our kids to go to school why dont we require these companies to at least inform the parents or the School Administrators what their spring when and where. So we started to ask questions like well what chemicals are they spray how do we manage runoff send an email to gary who is or asking him about it what we can do what how we could start a bill to get these Chemical Companies regulated so we can put a stop to it or at least find out whats going on this was a group of people and they were saying gerry cant you do something about this issue gary started meeting with representatives of the seed company as they deny the use of that which was a very potent herbicide thats questionable and banned in a lot of places because theyve clearly said theyre not using the and i was like well can you g
A 1000 times faster than the natural background rate of extinction. And a lot of people are unaware of this. 5 major mass extinctions obviously the last major mass extinction on the planet was the one that took out the dinosaurs right now were living through what they called the anthropocene in anthropocene translates to the age of man its where the human impact on our planet is so great that were actually changing the fossil record of our future so you know i try and reduce my Carbon Footprint as much as i can i drive an electric car the house that were sitting in this paradisal or were in and thats great and there are more and more people putting up solar panels and buying electric cars and going began and thats all good for the planet but as long as were still adding a 1000000000 people to the planet every 12 years i dont think that those adaptations are happening fast enough. Sound sumo who knows who. To. Sumo the. Google. Shows this to. Where. The. You. Know the. Me. Right back to
Thank. The the. I. Dont have a. I. Mean ive been up with. A low in welcome across top where all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle ever since they arrived. All of Boris Johnson to 10 downing street there is a growing sense have been evident ability that breaks it will be executed on october 31st with or without a deal do we get to this point what lessons have been learned or should have been learned. Cross knocking bags and im joined by my guest were now here are to in paris he is chief Foreign Correspondent at le figaro in london we have allister donald he is an associate director at the academy of ideas and in edinburgh we cross and john white he is a political commentator and writer originally cross titles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to john in edinburgh 1st here in my introduction i said theres a growing sense of inevitability that we will have brags that on the 31st here and my off the mark go ahead john i think with a to