Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Ongoing millennial green efforts to ensure theirs is the last generation to worry about climate change.
More than a third of millennials share Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s worry about having kids while the threat of climate change looms
ELIZA RELMAN, WALT HICKEY
MAR 5, 2019, 10:15 AM…
“Our planet is going to hit disaster if we don’t turn this ship around … there’s scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Instagram Live. “And even if you don’t have kids, there are still children here in the world, and we have a moral obligation to leave a better world for them.”
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An INSIDER poll conducted on SurveyMonkey Audience found that nearly 30% of Americans either strongly agree, agree, or somewhat agree that a couple should consider the negative and potentially life-threatening effects of climate change when deciding whether or not to have children. Just more than 8% of Americans strongly agreed that climate change should be a consideration.
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Young people are more likely to consider climate change
Notably, younger people are much more likely to consider the threats of a planet more prone to extreme weather, droughts, floods, and wildfires when deciding whether to have kids.
Nearly 38% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 agreed that climate change should be a factor in a couple’s decision about whether to have children. And 34% of Americans between the ages of 30 and 44 agreed.
Agreement was also linked to the belief that climate change is man-made: 38% of respondents who said “the earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity such as burning fossil fuels” said couples should factor in the effect of that warming on their children before having them. Meanwhile, 33% disagreed, and another third were neutral or didn’t know.
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Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/millennials-americans-worry-about-kids-children-climate-change-poll-2019-3
Since the best predictor of what children will be like is their parents, by not having children climate worrier green millennials are inexorably ceding the future to climate skeptics, and to people who choose to have large families regardless of their climate concerns.
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Child abuse, plain and simple. Lock up the doomsayers who take sick delight in injecting the next generation with complete terror and hopelessness.
Every generation worries about something that prior generations didn’t. When I was a kid we were raised to fear anihilation by the Soviets in nuclear war, including the infamous “duck and cover” exercises in schoolrooms and Hollywood doomsday films and such. It didn’t stop us from screwing around, or having babies. My parents generation grew up in the Great Depression, where unemployment was upwards of 25% or more, and came to adulthood and parenthood in the midst of the bloodiest war in history … it didn’t sto them from making our generation. My grandparent’s generation grew up to adulthood and raising families in the midst of the War to End All Wars .. they still made my parent’s generation.
Meh .. kids can be scared of stuff that is real, or of stuff that isn’t real. Reproduction keeps going on, either way.
In fact, the biggest factor in reducing human population growth and family size is economic wealth .. the more people have, the fewer kids they have.
Oddly enough the very same people are absolutely gagging to import hundreds of millions of people who breed like bacteria on an agar plate from the third world. ‘Mentally ill’ doesn’t even begin to cover it.
I hate to put it this way but for those millennials who feel this way it is just as well that they have no children. Any of their children would live a life filled with negativity and their presence would only add to the doomsday crowd.
Propaganda-a big lie repeated frequently until people come to believe it. Also known as brainwashing.
Perhaps it is a natural selection criterion- those that are so gullible will not reproduce because they have swallowed flagrant lies, so the subspecies of Homo Gullibilis becomes extinct due to not bothering to reproduce.
Alas, the flood of replacement humans could in all likelihood try to make the not so gullible extinct, which weakens the gene pool.
Just look at the Nazi criteria for natural selection-worked for a while- blonde, blue eyed Arayans were the favoured species. They attempted to make other sub species of humans extinct- ones they claimed were sub human (including my own sub-species.)
Note-as it is voluntary extinction, I do not have too much of a problem, as long as the imbeciles do not try to force their insanity upon me.
Its a self correcting problem, progressives should be encouraged to get sterilised,………
Then the desease of leftism will eradicate itself.
The correct response to a forthcoming apocalypse is to have as many children as possible. That would increase the chances of the human race surviving the disaster. In times of war people have more babies because it increases the chances of survival when so many are dying.
Back in the 1960s, I heard quite a few people state that they were never having kids because of looming world disasters.
Rationales included:
* finite resources,
* population bomb,
* their children fighting in unjust wars,
* everlasting poverty in both the first and third worlds,
* pollution,
* poisoned water,
* mistreated animals,
* unnatural plants being farmed and fed to people and animals, (this is well before GMO, when “nature’s children” did not comprehend farming, fertilizer, harvests, animal slaughter, etc.
* more and more expensive educations required with many graduates getting menial jobs,
* certain nuclear war,
* an Earth poisoned by nuclear wastes,
* etc., etc., etc.
Every one of them that I have met since that time, well except for a few who turned out sterile, have children.
Of the sterile, or barren if you prefer, every one of them tried for children. Many adopted, fostered or sought professional medical interventions.
Today’s millennials making threats!?
Have they committed themselves for permanent surgical celibacy?
Ho hum, talk to me when they stop whining.
They took time to look up from their smart devices to notice the weather? I don’t believe it!
“… and we have a moral obligation to leave a better world for them.”
Leave a better world…
Okay, just to make the maths easy, let us assume our little moral snowflakes are 30 years old.
Let us assume they then have a kiddling or two and stick with that 30 year age gap.
So, when our snow flakes finally make it to that big Safe Space in the sky at age 90, the kids first mentioned by AOC will be about 60.
“Dad! When can I have the keys to the planet? Dad you promised!”
“Not until you are 60, Son.”
So not only are we talking about 60 years into the future, we are also assuming that these new 60 year old owners of the planet will have spent their 40 odd adult years doing sweet sod all about their own destiny.
Sorry, AOC, but anyone truly stupid enough not to understand the logic of these ‘leave a better planet’ moral guilt trips probably should be encourage not to breed for the good of the overall gene pool.
I’m worried about millennials having kids, but for completely different reasons than they are.
“younger people are much more likely to consider the threats of a planet more prone to extreme weather, droughts, floods, and wildfires”
Well, of course. They are most recently indoctrinated to believe the climate change fraud and many other socialist shibboleths.
Better – not SUCH children:
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“…by not having children climate worrier green millennials are inexorably ceding the future to climate skeptics, and to people who choose to have large families regardless of their climate concerns.”
Except that over the last several decades liberals have used illegal discrimination in hiring at public universities to take control of almost all education, at least in the US.
I find this fear of ‘putting children into this world’ an obscene ignorance of the many greater threats and challenges humans have had throughout history and before. So, children of the modern developed world face a low risk of the following:
– high infant mortaility rates
– life expectance of >50 years
– being consripted into war like WW1 or WW2
– The Plague, Black Death, et
– Death in child birth
– Painfull incurable toothache
– Smallpox
– Polio
– Food or water poisening
These and many more were high risks faced by those of our past, and still millions in the developing world. Well, at least in the past, they didn’t have global warming to worry about!
IT’s interesting that all the comments (from less than 20% of the world’s population) act as though EVERYBODY cares about their doomsday predictions. Most of the remaining 80% want electricity and want babies. Nothing that do-gooders in the US or Europe (and particularly Australia) will make the slightest dent in either the natural cycles of the Earth or the number of babies being made. All so pointless isn’t it?
Those of us who have lived longer remember the same “fear to have children” during the Arms Race when there was a real possibility that there would be a nuclear war. Some (many?) skipped having children due to that fear.
The current “concern” about Climate Change regarding children is often that other people should not have kids or they use of “fears of climate change” as an excuse for their not wanting to have kids (for entirely different reasons).
Dylan wrote a song on this theme –Masters of War:
You’ve thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain’t worth the blood
That runs in your veins
I would cast the same judgement on those terrorizing the gullible with horror stories about climate.