Dr Carla Pascoe Leahy, a lecturer in family history at the University of Tasmania, has spent the last couple of years interviewing women about whether their reproductive choices have been affected by climate change. And the answer is a resounding “yes”. “What many of them were saying is that they were hesitant to have children because the environmental future is so uncertain,” she says. Many of the women she interviewed spoke with great sadness about the conclusion they’d come to: that they couldn’t justify having children. And it wasn’t just sadness for their own lives, but also the implications for...