Environmental issues were seen as a niche interest until just a few decades ago. While the environmental movement has been going for years, emerging as it did in the decades following the second world war, it has really only come into its own relatively recently. There are a multitude of factors involved here - better general education means that people today are much more aware of environmental issues than their parents or grandparents were, for example.
Other important factors in the rise of environmentalism include improved technology that not only enables us to take more accurate readings of the current state of Earth environments but also to convey these findings to the general public in a much more concise way. But perhaps the biggest and most important of all these factors is the simple fact that the effects of climate change are now becoming apparent.
Around the globe, more extreme weather events are starting to become the norm. Europe has only recently emerged from a record-breaking heatwave, while the US has experienced its own extreme temperatures in recent years. From polar vortices in the north that have sent temperatures crashing below freezing, to heatwaves and intense tropical storms that are now part and parcel of living along the US coastline.
Studies show that millennials are choosing not to have kids because of their concerns about the environment. It no longer seems unthinkable that we will witness a calamity in our lifetimes that significantly reduces the amount of life on earth, human or otherwise. For parents who do decide to have children in the current climate, it is only natural to worry about the future that they will inhabit.
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