Sarah Bexell—Age 46, Denver, Colorado

Growing up I assumed I would be a mom someday, but my university studies taught me about the environmental crises plaguing Earth due to human population growth and consumption. My career has focused on the 6th Mass Extinction…

and attempts to bring critically endangered species back from the brink of extinction, which is failing due to population growth. I chose not to have children first to save space and resources for other animals, but as the evidence is mounting that already humans are suffering due to environmental changes (including climate change) and that the near future will become worse, I would not want to be cruel to unborn children, nor have their lives create more stress and hardship to other humans and other species.