Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question
eBook - ePub

Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question

Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future

  1. 172 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question

Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future

About this book

The first book-length exploration of climate-driven reproductive anxiety that places race and social justice at the center. Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt. Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Solastalgia. The study of environmental emotions and related mental health impacts is a rapidly growing field, but most researchers overlook a closely related concern: reproductive anxiety. Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question is the first comprehensive study of how environmental emotions influence whether, when, and why people today decide to become parents—or not. Jade S. Sasser argues that we can and should continue to create the families we desire, but that doing so equitably will require deep commitments to social, reproductive, and climate justice. Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question presents original research, drawing from in-depth interviews and national survey results that analyze the role of race in environmental emotions and the reproductive plans young people are making as a result. Sasser concludes that climate emotions and climate justice are inseparable, and that culturally appropriate mental and emotional health services are a necessary component to ensure climate justice for vulnerable communities.

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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction: No Future for Us
  8. 1. Childfree Nation
  9. 2. Can We Still Have Babies?
  10. 3. The Kids Are Not Alright
  11. 4. The Kid Question Is Unjust
  12. 5. The Personal Is Political
  13. 6. Reproductive Resistance in Public
  14. Conclusion: No Climate Justice without Climate Emotions
  15. Glossary
  16. Notes
  17. Index