ON THIN ICE

IS CLIMATE CHANGE MAKING YOU RETHINK HAVING CHILDREN? You’re not alone. A study from the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) found 78 per cent of women aged under 30, or their friends and family, have experienced worry or anxiety about climate change and the future. When US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who’s 29, questioned whether we should still be having children in the face of it, Australian women felt similarly – 33.4 per cent of those surveyed by the ACF are having second thoughts about having children because they will face an “unsafe future from climate change”.

Kimberly Nicholas, who grew up in Northern California, is