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A Comparative Qualitative Analysis of How Climate Anxiety Shapes Spending, Saving, and Investing Behaviors Among 18–30-Year-Olds

Author(s) Riva Mehta
Country India
Abstract Young individuals are coming of age with overlapping crises such as climate instability, inflation, debt, and housing precarity. In light of these crises, climate anxiety has emerged as one of the most significant emotional and socio-economic forces. We examine climate anxiety—how it influences youth financial behaviors of spending, saving, and investing—not as anxiety because of climate change but as a rational response to ecological uncertainty, which is understandable. Using qualitative synthesis of secondary data and literature across fields of psychology, behavioral economics, and sustainability, we use the comparative patterns across youth in India, Germany, and the United States to draw our findings. We found that climate anxiety increases risk aversion, creates precautionary savings, encourages sustainable consumption, and increases values-oriented investing in ESG and green finance. Findings were conditional upon socio-economic status, cultural context, and political climate, along with contradictions such as the gap between eco-minded values and affordability. Climate anxiety is not simply a
psychological inhibition, but a constituent of a climate-generating economy that will have a significant impact on markets, financial systems, and policy.
Keywords Climate anxiety, youth economy, financial behavior, spending, saving, investing, behavioral economics, precautionary saving, sustainable consumption, ESG investing, India, Germany, United States
Field Sociology > Economics
Published In Volume 7, Issue 5, September-October 2025
Published On 2025-09-05
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i05.55213
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