Can I take responsibility for bringing a person to this world who will be part of the apocalypse
Ideological dilemmas and concerns for future well-being when bringing the climate crisis into reproductive decision-making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5084680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maja Bodin (0000-0003-4647-5709, Malmö University, corresponding author), Johanna Björklund (0000-0002-4954-4397, Uppsala University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 302 |
| Pages | 114985 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science & Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114985 |
| PMID | 35468522 |
| OpenAlex | W4224281873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 23 |
In the wake of the ongoing climate crisis and its negative effects on public health, it has been questioned by climate activists whether it is right to bring more children into the world. Moreover, according to previous scholarship, having one fewer child is the most high-impact lifestyle change individuals in developed countries can make in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But do climate awareness and recommendations to have fewer children have any impact on how lay people reason around reproductive decision-making? In this paper, which is based on focus group discussions with people from different generations, we show how various and sometimes conflicting discourses on reproductive norms and responsibility are negotiated. Even though participants were highly aware of the ongoing discussions around the climate crisis, in the end it had little bearing on their decision to have children or not, and they justified reproduction through addressing other ways to contribute to a better world
Climate change · Economics · Environmental crisis · Environmental ethics · Greenhouse gas · Ideology · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Reproduction · Scholarship · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Law · Reproductive Health and Technologies
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| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |