A study of 600 adults in the US found that many people are deciding not to have children or regret having children due to climate change, which has now gone on to become a predicament that can only be mitigated — not solved. The precipitous drop in population that comes with the fall of a civilization is mostly due to people choosing not to have children — not various causes of death.
The researchers surveyed 600 people aged 27 to 45 who were already factoring climate concerns into their reproductive choices and found 96% were very or extremely concerned about the wellbeing of their potential future children in a climate-changed world. One 27-year-old woman said: “I feel like I can’t in good conscience bring a child into this world and force them to try and survive what may be apocalyptic conditions.”
Given that the US response to climate change has so far been to elect capitalist puppets and fascists to political office, and to throw money at various pseudo-environmental corporations (e.g., Tesla), the concerns of the respondents are well-founded.
Article in the Guardian by Damian Carrington
Primary Source: Eco-reproductive concerns in the age of climate change by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson & Kit Ling Leong