The first book-length exploration of climate-driven reproductive anxiety that
places race and social justice at the center.

Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt. Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Solastalgia. The study of
environmental emotions and related mental health impacts is a rapidly growing field, but
most researchers overlook a closely related concern: reproductive anxiety. Climate
Anxiety and the Kid Question is the first comprehensive study of how environmental
emotions influence whether, when, and why people today decide to become parents—or
not.
Jade S. Sasser argues that we can and should continue to create the families we desire,
but that doing so equitably will require deep commitments to social, reproductive, and
climate justice. Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question presents original research, drawing
from in-depth interviews and national survey results that analyze the role of race in
environmental emotions and the reproductive plans young people are making as a result.
Sasser concludes that climate emotions and climate justice are inseparable, and that
culturally appropriate mental and emotional health services are a necessary component to
ensure climate justice for vulnerable communities.