Media reports and public polls suggest that young people in many countries are increasingly factoring climate change into their reproductive choices, but empirical evidence about this phenomenon is lacking. This article reviews the scholarship on this subject and discusses the results of the first empirical study focused on it, a quantitative and qualitative survey of 607 US-Americans between the ages of 27 and 45. While 59.8% of respondents reported being “very” or “extremely concerned” about the carbon footprint of procreation, 96.5% of respondents were “very” or “extremely concerned” about the well-being of their existing, expected, or hypothetical children in a climate-changed world. This was largely due to an overwhelmingly negative expectation of the future with climate change. Younger respondents were more concerned about the climate impacts their children would experience than older respondents, and there was no statistically significant difference between the eco-reproductive concerns of male and female respondents. These and other results are situated within scholarship about growing climate concern in the USA, the concept of the carbon footprint, the carbon footprint of procreation, individual actions in response to climate change, temporal perceptions of climate change, and expectations about the future in the USA. Potential implications for future research in environmental psychology, environmental sociology, the sociology of reproduction, demography, and climate mitigation are discussed.

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气候变化时代的生态生殖问题

媒体报道和公共民意调查表明，许多国家的年轻人越来越多地将气候变化纳入他们的生育选择中，但缺乏关于这一现象的经验证据。本文回顾了关于该主题的学术研究，并讨论了第一项针对该主题的实证研究的结果，该研究对 607 名 27 至 45 岁的美国美国人进行了定量和定性调查。虽然 59.8% 的受访者表示“非常”或96.5% 的受访者“非常”或“非常担心”他们现有的、预期的或假设的孩子在气候变化的世界中的福祉。这主要是由于对气候变化的未来有着压倒性的负面预期。与年长的受访者相比，年轻的受访者更关心他们的孩子将经历的气候影响，男性和女性受访者对生态生殖的关注在统计上没有显着差异。这些和其他结果位于关于美国日益增长的气候关注、碳足迹的概念、生育的碳足迹、应对气候变化的个人行动、气候变化的时间感知以及对未来的期望的学术研究中。美国。讨论了对未来环境心理学、环境社会学、生殖社会学、人口学和气候减缓研究的潜在影响。男性和女性受访者对生态生殖的关注在统计上没有显着差异。这些和其他结果位于关于美国日益增长的气候关注、碳足迹的概念、生育的碳足迹、应对气候变化的个人行动、气候变化的时间感知以及对未来的期望的学术研究中。美国。讨论了对未来环境心理学、环境社会学、生殖社会学、人口学和气候减缓研究的潜在影响。男性和女性受访者对生态生殖的关注在统计上没有显着差异。这些和其他结果位于关于美国日益增长的气候关注、碳足迹的概念、生育的碳足迹、应对气候变化的个人行动、气候变化的时间感知以及对未来的期望的学术研究中。美国。讨论了对未来环境心理学、环境社会学、生殖社会学、人口学和气候减缓研究的潜在影响。应对气候变化的个人行动、对气候变化的时间感知以及对美国未来的期望。讨论了对未来环境心理学、环境社会学、生殖社会学、人口学和气候减缓研究的潜在影响。应对气候变化的个人行动、对气候变化的时间感知以及对美国未来的期望。讨论了对未来环境心理学、环境社会学、生殖社会学、人口学和气候减缓研究的潜在影响。