The environmental politics of reproductive choices in the age of climate change

@article{SchneiderMayerson2021TheEP,
  title={The environmental politics of reproductive choices in the age of climate change},
  author={Matthew Schneider-Mayerson},
  journal={Environmental Politics},
  year={2021},
  volume={31},
  pages={152 - 172}
}
ABSTRACT The ethics of having children in the age of climate change is increasingly being discussed, but the political dimensions of individual reproductive choices in relation to climate change have been almost entirely ignored. This lacuna is addressed by drawing on a survey of 607 climate leftists who were factoring climate change into their reproductive plans and choices. Using a grounded theory approach, it identifies four dimensions of the connection between reproductive choices and… 
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