When Lloyd Williamson lay on his back in a physician’s clinic in November last year, it was for the surgical culmination of years of soul searching. Williamson, who is 30 and from Essex north of London, remembers wanting a family as a child, but something changed in his early 20s.
“I thought: You know what? I don’t want to bring a life into this world, because it’s pretty shitty as it is and it’s only going to get worse,” he said two weeks after his vasectomy.
Williamson was largely motivated to sterilize himself by the climate crisis. Given the link between