No future, no kids–no kids, no future?

Individuals around the world believe global climate change is a major threat, with media attention and polling suggesting young adults may decide to go childfree as result. Yet, there limited research on link between environmental concern reproductive attitudes. The purpose of this was explore how change-related concerns affect attitudes motivations remain childfree. Two studies were conducted: study 1 consisted content analysis reader comments articles discussing going in response change, 2 featured semi-structured interviews conducted New Zealand USA. impact future children planet, context overpopulation overconsumption, theme both studies. Perspectives doom hope emerged simultaneously, indicating anxiety influences Study findings point at implications for public policy makers regarding largely neglected perspective adaptation mitigation potential psychological societal effects.