Children in the Hands of God and Climate Change

For a while, I've been meaning to write a column about the phenomenon of young people saying that they don't want to have children because they fear raising them in a world laid waste by climate change. As with any idea that you keep on the shelf too long, I've now seen it executed by a colleague -- in this case, Ezra Klein, who devoted his weekend column to arguing for an optimistic, life-affirming response to the challenges of rising temperatures.