In the summer of 2020, wildfires consumed vast swathes of the western United States. The entire landscape dissolved in an otherworldly glow of orange and yellow. A sick mandarin was seething in the sky over Oregon and California. Forest fires roared in China, India, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Greece. Australia's fire season has destroyed 25 million acres after six full months. Flames crawled along the edge of the Arctic and burned across Siberia. The question of whether to have children in the midst of a deepening climate crisis has been fodder for endless essays and op-eds, books and newsletters; columnist and podcaster New York Times Ezra Klein said it's the most popular question from his listeners. (Anna Louie Sussman, more at newrepublic.com)