L’écologie en plus. Des justifications environnementales de la non-procréation
The “ecological crisis” would revolutionize our reproductive behavior. Alerted by the non-sustainability of a supposed overpopulation or concerned about a future announced as apocalyptic, more and more individuals would choose to renounce procreation and would refrain from having children, out of et...
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| description | The “ecological crisis” would revolutionize our reproductive behavior. Alerted by the non-sustainability of a supposed overpopulation or concerned about a future announced as apocalyptic, more and more individuals would choose to renounce procreation and would refrain from having children, out of ethical concern. Based on a recent study among a young generation of childfree individuals, we show how environmental concerns are indeed influencing some family arrangement choices. However, our interviews also demonstrate that the ecology, if present, is a secondary ethical argument that legitimizes - or even ennobles – a previous desire for a childfree life. By giving voice to the arguments of those individuals, notably women, who choose not to have children for ecological reasons, the article shows that their concern, less than a shared trend, is in fact inscribed in a singular context where the will not to procreate remains tainted by a powerful stigma, calling for justification and avoidance strategies. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2e87aacb83c44625b83f56a6db1639822025-01-09T12:37:08ZfraÉditions en environnement VertigOVertigO1492-84422023-09-0123210.4000/vertigo.41014L’écologie en plus. Des justifications environnementales de la non-procréationClarisse VeauxSébastien RouxThe “ecological crisis” would revolutionize our reproductive behavior. Alerted by the non-sustainability of a supposed overpopulation or concerned about a future announced as apocalyptic, more and more individuals would choose to renounce procreation and would refrain from having children, out of ethical concern. Based on a recent study among a young generation of childfree individuals, we show how environmental concerns are indeed influencing some family arrangement choices. However, our interviews also demonstrate that the ecology, if present, is a secondary ethical argument that legitimizes - or even ennobles – a previous desire for a childfree life. By giving voice to the arguments of those individuals, notably women, who choose not to have children for ecological reasons, the article shows that their concern, less than a shared trend, is in fact inscribed in a singular context where the will not to procreate remains tainted by a powerful stigma, calling for justification and avoidance strategies.https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/41014environmentethicsecologyargumentationreproductionchildfree |
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| title | L’écologie en plus. Des justifications environnementales de la non-procréation |
| title_full | L’écologie en plus. Des justifications environnementales de la non-procréation |
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| title_short | L’écologie en plus. Des justifications environnementales de la non-procréation |
| title_sort | l ecologie en plus des justifications environnementales de la non procreation |
| topic | environment ethics ecology argumentation reproduction childfree |
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