Fewer or none: How climate change is fast shaping the size of young families

Pearsall doesn't want to have a child and cites climate change as a reason. He says he doesn't want to worsen the situation by adding another lifetime of greenhouse gas emissions to the mix. — CHRIS SWEDA/Chicago Tribune/TNS

COLLIN Pearsall has friends who have started having children. But he has chosen a different path – due, in large part, to climate change. Pearsall worries about the greenhouse gas emissions a child would add to a planet already experiencing the effects of rising temperatures.

And he is concerned about the impact climate change would have on the child: “the feeling of impending doom, every day, for their whole life.”