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Here is the link to my article “Don’t Let Climate Anxiety Stop You From Having Kids” In New York Magazine.

Here is the link again.

https://www.thecut.com/2023/12/dont-let-climate-anxiety-stop-you-from-having-kids.html

Here is the beginning of the article:

Don’t Let Climate Anxiety Stop You From Having Kids

The battle to save the planet shouldn’t be waged over the bodies of women.

On a too-warm day in early spring, I was sitting at a sidewalk café in Williamsburg, having a catch-up coffee with a former colleague in her early 30s. She was wondering aloud about freezing her eggs. “But then again, most of my friends are pretty much resigned to never having kids, or are at least angsting about it,” she said. “You know, because of the stuff you’re working on.”

The stuff I’ve been working on, as a writer, is the climate crisis and how people are responding to it. And in the past decade, I’ve indeed heard an increasingly loud drumbeat of concern about procreation. Some people worry about the world their children will inherit; others feel guilty about the enlarged carbon footprint that comes with an enlarged family.

There have been personal essays, memoirs, metafictional novels, nonfiction books, documentary series, and podcasts on the topic. A few weeks ago, the writer Jessica Winter shared her own brush with procreation angst in The New Yorker. And research studies back up that this is a growing phenomenon. A recent meta-analysis from University College London found that across nearly every study on the topic, the more worried people were about the climate, the stronger their desire for fewer children or none at all.

As a mother of two, I have to confess that when I read these pieces or hear these arguments, it feels like a slap in the face.

For more:

https://www.thecut.com/2023/12/dont-let-climate-anxiety-stop-you-from-having-kids.html