British journalist Madeleine Kearns joins Chelsea Follett to discuss misplaced eco-anxiety's effect on birth rates and why some couples feel they need to choose between parenthood and the planet.

Transcript: https://www.humanprogress.org/madeleine-kearns-the-human-progress-podcast-ep-16-transcript/

Madeleine Kearns is from Glasgow, Scotland. She is a staff writer at National Review and a contributor to The Spectator.  She has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, and many other outlets and often appears on the BBC. She has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of St. Andrews, a postgraduate diploma in Education from the University of Glasgow, and a master’s degree in Journalism from New York University. She also writes and performs music. Learn more: https://madeleinekearns.com/

Chelsea Follett is the managing editor of HumanProgress.org, a project of the Cato Institute that seeks to educate the public on the global improvements in well‐being by providing free empirical data on long‐term developments. 

Learn more: https://www.cato.org/people/chelsea-follett