Climate Change
Q&A: Should We Be Having Babies In a Warming World?
Jade Sasser’s research explores one of the biggest questions facing the climate conscious. Her new book focuses on the racial dimensions of eco-anxiety and reproduction decisions.
Jade S. Sasser has been studying reproductive choices in the context of climate change for a quarter century. Her 2018 book, “Infertile Ground,” explored how population growth in the Global South has been misguidedly framed as a crisis—a perspective that Sasser argues had its roots in long-standing racial stereotypes about sexuality and promiscuity.