New Publication: It’s time to take the antinatalist variable seriously: new perspectives from procreation ethics and moral judgments
New Publication: "It’s time to take the antinatalist variable seriously: new perspectives from procreation ethics and moral judgments" Affiliate Researcher and Former Stehr-Boldt Fellow Diego Borbón has published a new open access paper in the journal Biodemography and Social Biology:
Borbón argues that demography has overlooked a critical dimension: a growing share of individuals choose childlessness on explicitly moral grounds — concerns over climate change, social deterioration, or the perceived harmfulness of bringing new life into existence — that fall outside traditional cost-benefit frameworks, or solely by economic or structural factors. His article makes the case for incorporating antinatalism as an empirically measurable variable within fertility research, as a necessary component of a more complete account of contemporary demographic decline.