This page will be for project resources, which will include background materials, further reading, project documents and more. It will be continuously updated as the project gets underway, so watch this space.
Press coverage of the topic:
Megan Mayhew Bergman (2021) Should I have children? Weighing parenthood amid the climate crisis. The Guardian, 13th November. Read it here.
Damian Carrington (2017) Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children. The Guardian, 12th July. Read it here.
Meehan Crist (2020) Is it OK to have a child? London Review of Books vol. 42 no. 5, 5th March. Read or listen to it here.
Sarah Marie Hall (2021) ‘I don’t think I can cope financially’ – the people putting off parenthood because of austerity. The Conversation, 13th September. Read it here.
Fiona Harvey (2021) Four in ten young people fear having children due to climate crisis. The Guardian, 14th September. Read it here.
Elle Hunt (2019) BirthStrikers: Meet the women who refuse to have children until climate change ends. The Guardian, 12th March. Read it here.
Ted Scheinman (2019) The couples rethinking kids because of climate change. Generation Project: Population Paradox (BBC), 1st October. Read it here.
Published research on the topic:
Elizabeth Marks, Caroline Hickman, Panu Pihkala, Susan Clayton, Eric R Lewandowski, Eloise E Mayall, Britt Wray, Catriona Mellor & Lise van Susteren (2021) Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey. The Lancet Planetary Health vol. 5 issue 12. Available open access here.