When eco-anxiety deters someone from having children

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They have been labeled “Ginks” (“Green inclinations, no kids”). This name refers to those individuals who decide not to become parents for environmental reasons. It’s a choice that often manifests itself through the well-known phenomenon of eco-anxiety, as demonstrated by a recent study, one of the first examples of university research on this topic.

This survey, published in Climatic Change, was conducted by researchers at Singapore Yale-NUS College among 607 Americans, aged between 27 and 45. The results speak for themselves: 96.5% of the people surveyed said they were “very” or “extremely concerned” about the well-being of their current or potential future children in a “climat…

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