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Environmental and existential threats have changed parenting and fertility itself.
A visible group of Americans teens, and those in their 20s and 30s, cite climate change as a reason they are hesitating to have children, or choosing not to do so.
CHICAGO — Collin Pearsall has friends who have started having children. But he has chosen a different path — due, in large part, to climate change. Pearsall worries about the greenhouse gas emissions a child would add to a planet already experiencing the effects of rising temperatures. And he is concerned about the impact climate change would have on the child: “the feeling of impending doom, ...
The authors of “The Conceivable Future” argue that we should focus less on whether or not to have babies and more on stopping the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.