It’s not just the climate that’s changing, our environmental crisis is shifting American attitudes about having kids.
a planetary temperature increase of between 2.5 and 10 degrees Fahrenheit; once-in-20-year extreme heat days happening every two or three years; and an up-to-eight-foot rise in sea level. It’s no wonder women are rethinking bringing more people into this rapidly deteriorating world.
In fact, 58 percent of women have adjusted their family planning because of concerns about climate change, according to a new survey conducted by reproductive health company Modern Fertility and shared withexclusively. These women are worried, in particular, “about the world [their] kids will inherit,” per the results. A third say they want to have fewer children because of it.
While 34 percent of the more than 2,800 American women surveyed are reducing their previously anticipated family size, a large cohort said that our planet’s current crisis has actually accelerated their timeline for having kids, either because it’s refocused what’s important to them or added a sense of urgency . Economics seems to be a factor.
“Gen Z is acutely aware of the climate crisis in ways that other generations at the same reproductive age were not,” says Jane Van Dis, an ob-gyn and founder of Time’s Up Healthcare. “[Gen Z sees the news] thatBut this is perhaps an unfair weight to put on the shoulders of individual mothers. Certainly a bigger contributor to climate change is the fossil fuel industry, which parents or potential parents have limited, if any, control over—energy sources are by and large decided by government.
While understanding women’s attitudes around their family planning is important, it isn’t just attitudes that climate change is impacting; the changing planet is also impacting women's ability to have a family at all. “Due to climate change, we are seeing
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