Of all the reasons (or none whatsoever) was climate change ever a reason someone chose to remain childfree?

[VladmirsPoutine]

I'm childfree by choice (for the foreseeable future) this was never an issue until I hit my 30s and oddly enough got divorced which seemed to create all manner of worry and concern about the state of my womb.

I'm in a place where I could theoretically have children if I were so inclined but at the moment I quite like my sleep, freedom and money (that was half joking before anyone jumps on me about their time spent travelling in 1st class with their 3 toddlers and 10 hours of sleep each night).

But whilst I am concerned about climate change and try to do my bit on a personal and professional level. In all my thinking about having/not having children it never occurred to me that climate change - and it's foretold doom - would factor in my decision making. I think forgoing children would be one sacrifice too far if I really wanted to avert climate change.

Does anyone else think this? I am not saying I think I have a 'right' to have a child but I am saying even if I chose to have one or not - climate change would never enter my reasoning in-spite of my concern about global change.

I don't want children. But Climate Change wouldn't even factor in my top 1000 reasons not to have one haha.

By contrast, I do want children but this is something I do worry about, a lot. Not enough to put me off, though.

No, but I find it an easy way to distract people from wanting to talk about why we only have one child. Its a lot easier to answer a rude question about 'why do you only have one' with 'we can't afford the carbon offset'!

I have a friend who has chosen to only have 1 child for this reason. She was actually adamant when she was younger that she would have no children, but has changed her mind as she got older - so this is her compromise.

I do think climate change will become more of a reason to certainly have fewer children, in the future.