Climate Change and the Decision to Have Kids
NPR’s Short Wave podcast looks at concern for climate change and how its impacting the decision to have children among millennials and zoomers.
Gen Z and younger millennials are the most climate literate generations the world has ever seen. As an age group who started learning about climate change in school, they’re worried about how to plan for their future jobs, houses, and yes, kids. With climate-related disasters and global warming likely to worsen, climate anxiety is giving way to reproductive anxiety.
Listen to the full segment here.
If you’re interested more, check out Jade Sasser’s Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future (discussed in the podcast).