5:46 PM 03/05/2019 | Politics
Caitlin McFall | Contributor
BirthStrike is the newest movement in the push to advance climate change regulations.
At least 60 women have joined the BirthStrike movement, which encourages women to refuse to have children because they believe the earth is in crisis due to climate change. Members of this newly formed group believe it would be unjust to raise children in a world that could look vastly different than the world they grew up in.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been outspoken on this subject, holding a live Q&A from her kitchen and asking the question, “Is it OK to still have children?” (RELATED: Poll: 1/3 Of Americans Share Ocasio-Cortez’s Worry About Having Kids With Climate Change)
According to a report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is a body in the United Nations focused on assessing the world’s climate trends, having fewer children is the best way people can cut down on CO2 emissions. And this has prompted the formation of BirthStrike.
The report estimates that having one child less per family will save 58.6 tons of CO2 per year, whereas living car-free is estimated to only save about 2.4 tons of CO2 per year.
AOC has not said that people should stop having children. But she has emphasized that “we need a universal sense of urgency” and that the “watered-down proposals” being offered “are frankly going to kill us.”
Tune in to see what exactly is happening with this BirthStrike movement.
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That is one way to cull those that cant think for themselves from this planet….
Now all of us who can think for themselves just need to have 4-5 children and eventually we will take over the Earth….haha
Or stop indoctrinating the ones allowed to be born (or at least born and allowed to live), in the public school systems.
Yeah, that’ll do it. LOL Looks like the level of indocrination is not quite fit for purpose yet.
Wow! 60 women. We are down to about 158,000,000 females left. Cut out to you, too old and I bet there’s no more than 110,000,000 left. Bet you single guys are distraught that your blind date won’t have your baby.
Let them swear off having children. Get themselves neutered and spayed. I am ENTIRELY in favor of that. No need to have feral children dumped on someone’s farm or front lawn in the suburbs in a cardboard box, right?
Seriously, if they find having offspring offensive to their senses, it means fewer of THEM. And when they die, no one will remember their names.
Yes.
The SJWs aren’t having kids. They utterly rely on being able to take other peoples’ kids and indoctrinate them into SJWs in their government indoctrination camps.
Homeschool or die.
I already did my 5 kids, and don’t feel guilty at all.
These are probably women that were’t going to have children anyways for other reasons.
No, they probably have been so brainwashed from birth that they truely believe what they say.
I’d like to see a more rapid solution to the problem but if Darwinian selection is all we’ve got it’s a good start. All those who deny that climate changes all the time should be encouraged not to reproduce.
Intelligence and the ability to asses one’s environment is an essential survival trait. These women clearly fail. The sooner the blood line disappears the better.
BTW, I don’t give them more than five years before they have a “happy accident”.
‘I don’t give them more than five years before they have a “happy accident”.’
That’s another constant.
Great minds Greg, down below I said something similar: Of the birthstrikers that aren’t too old, too young, or too lesbian to have children through the normal means, I suspect half of them will be pregnant within 5 years.
If they believe in climate change they probably shouldn’t be peeing in the gene pool anyway.
Right there with you Jeff. My five are in the pipe either in college or working. No guilt at all.
How on earth do children survive being born in Miami?
It is two degrees warmer than in NYC and DC.
The place should be a ghost town, instead it is full of latinos procreating.
Jeff, did you need 5 kids?
This has been obvious in the USA for some time. Republicans have more children than Demonizers (Democrats)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fatherly.com/health-science/republicans-have-more-children/amp/
True, but the Demonizers are stealing those kids via indoctrination in the public school system.
Exactly,
I have always said that, if the libtards think there are too many people, they should lead the way by volunteering to be gone. Now, they are stepping up and sacrificing their offspring. Wow, a gift that will keep on giving for decades.
I highly encourage idiots of all stripes to exclude their DNA from the gene pool.
The world could certainly get by with fewer fools.
At least in this case its self limiting.
Could we actually give an entire political party the Darwin Award?
If only the people who drive slow in the left lane could be convinced to go on birth strike.
The anti-vaxxers are doing something simlar. They’re still having kids, but many of them will not live long enough to reproduce due to their parents’ stupidity. I hate it for the kids who have to die because their parents are idiots. But at least their ability to pass their views on to their children is hampered.
Be comforted. 99% of third world women won’t pay attention to this.
There is an irony that regardless what these morons do India and China will make it insignificant.
As with my earlier comment, which might show up eventually
100%! We have out of control exponential Third World population growth and these lemming like libtards do the ultimate religious virtue signalling! Bet 50% of them are over 35 and already have kids. The rest of them well look for the happy “accident” in a couple of years time. Pathetic mindless believers. Jonestown resident wannabes?
Perhaps they can use the spare time to make uncomfortable rocking chairs like the original Shakers. Would it be too much to call them ‘Fakers’?
As wth apparently so many other ways in which they are ignorant, these people don’t know much about what is really going on vis a vis population.
Let’s be fair.
They don’t have much of a clue about anything, do they?
Idiocracy in reverse 🤔
Right – the real goal should be to have fewer far-left liberal, socialist and radical green children. Solves most problems. Children with common sense and a belief in facts and science are welcome.
Sounds very good to me. I don’t want them having little alarmist that will grow up to cause my grandchildren grief.
There is an irony here. When they grow old, being lonely and childless they will expect other people’s children to befriend them and perhaps even look after them.
Or demand for a government program to force other people’s children to spend time with them.
And to force other peoples children to care for them in their aged times.
I wonder if part of AOCs GND will be to force other peoples kids to take these aging martyrs into their homes for end of life care
Where do you think the money to pay for all of AOC’s agenda comes from …other peoples kids paying taxes.
Of course, by then we’ll have the euthanasia panels to ‘retire’ these aged fools.
And the Soylent Green processing plants
Michael in Dublin: “When they grow old, being lonely and childless they will expect other people’s children to … ”
– continue paying into Social Security
– join the military and protect this country
– drive the economy
– …
And if the temperatures have not increased as the computers predict, they will have every right to be angry.
Regards
Isn’t this the plot to the movie “Greta”? 😉
obviously….a conservative plot
Why would any rational male want to have children with a mentally ill woman suffering from self induced delusions of impending global doom?
That’s not a ‘plot’. It’s self-respecting sanity.
BirthStrike?
I got news for you, when the baby is ready to come, it comes.
MarkW
Nope, that’s the bloke.
More like a Sex Strike
Bring on the Age of Spinsters
Unless u live in NY. Then, you can abort it last minute ….
“Unless u live in NY. Then, you can abort it last minute ….”
Even later in Virginia. Being a fully-fuctioning human being won’t help you there.
Population replacement will come to the practitioners’ neighborhoods.
The world of today looks a lot different from the world of 1960. The fact that I’m typing this on a personal computer is just one, small example of how different it is.
PC…chute…I’m doing this on my phone
To think, back when I had hair being nuked to the stone age by the Soviets was considered a realistic threat and the Sahara was bigger.
GASP! Good think I never spent my teen years playing with wild oats or I would be having to split my child support between giving money and explaining what nuclear destruction was.
This is the best argument for abortion the left has put forward to date.
Brilliant Brilliant Bill. Thanks for thinking of that response. You are so right.
It’s evolution in action.
You beat me to it.
Darwin’s theories in action!
If your are going to radicalize and terrify your offspring with scary stories, you won’t be a good parent. Good parents nurture prepare their children for a future that unfortunately includes the crazy doom-mongering of nut jobs like this group.
If having the tendency to accept ridiculous arguments is heritable, their not having children is a good idea.
AOC’s deepest thoughts just keep on giving and giving to America….we should all be glad we can use her as an example to our neighbors and children….
An interesting timeline about who’s behind AOC . She simply answered a casting call and won the part.
https://twitter.com/Lady_Vi_2U/status/1101609934247129088
I am wondering if this could qualify for a Darwin Award.
Normally someone has to die to receive the award, but the key requirement is to remove one’s self from the gene pool in a stupid manner, which these people plan to do.
The only question is will they follow through. These loony-lefties often talk the talk, but its rare to find one that walks the walk. Of the birthstrikers that aren’t too old, too young, or too lesbian to have children through the normal means, I suspect half of them will be pregnant within 5 years.
Best news I’ve heard all day.
where you planning to have a baby before you heard crazy Cortez speak Good for you I didn’t know men had transitioned into that role. You would have loved it.
As long as they don’t go on a sex strike or abortion binge.
They have two humane choices: sex strike and conception strike. An abortion binge is a birth strike in progress, which is two strikes/choices too late.
Nah, not religious fanatics at ALL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers
“At its peak in the mid-19th century, there were 6,000 Shaker believers. By 1920, there were only 12 Shaker communities remaining in the United States.
At the present time, there is only one active Shaker village, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, which is located in Maine. Their celibacy combined with external and internal societal changes resulted in the thinning of the Shaker community, and consequently many of the other Shaker settlements are now village museums.”
Darwinism in action.
I bet they are all over-weight hogw.
Weight-watchers for SJW’s and lonely bints.
This is good news in many respects.
1- shorter waiting times for doctor appointments of other couples, especially in health service rationing countries
2- less stressed delivery room services and staff
3- better choices for day care services and grammar schools
4- less financial pressure in health service budgets
5- fewer Green divorces and broken homes
6- more space for migrants with other (traditional) values
The only downside is more free time for paid protesters and over-represented policy advocates.
Another downside is that the crushing burden of $21 trillion in national debt and $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities will fall on fewer shoulders. This will not end well.
Just let in more climate refugees 🙂
Finally, a progressive movement I can get behind.
My thoughts exactly. But how do we convince the rest of the leftards to self-extinct.
Although self extinction is the likely end result, the process will still take decades
It could be worse. It could be “Planned”, and that is CAGCC or catastrophic anthropogenic global child culling, a wicked solution.
I hope that great idea catches on. We have boatloads waiting at the borders to take up the slack. By the way, even in the best of all possible worlds, your children eventually die. Did that thought occur to them?
Why wait, when a carbon-free humanity, less humanity, is technically and socially within their reach. Sequester now. Sequester often.
BirthStrike? — shouldn’t that be “BrainStrike”? — a condition of a thinking mind where an otherwise intelligent person acts stupid.
An Open Letter to the Women of the Birthstrike Movement:
I hope you are extraordinarily successful in recruiting other women to your movement, especially female bureaucrats and politicians.
Thank you for helping to improve the gene pool for all humans.
Sincerely,
An Uncaring Male
The birth rate/population is falling sharply in many countries… Korea and Japan, for example.
In neither of those is anyone doing it for reason of climate change…
So you personally interviewed them all? Amazing that you have that kind of time, and yet still have time to pollute threads with your idiocy.
How many Koreans and Japanese did your poll for your survey?
Was it a statistically valid sample?
griff
All thanks to fossil fuel derived prosperity.
How exactly, was that relevant to the topic at hand?
The birth rate/population is falling sharply in many countries…
And every single one of those countries has something in common. I know you know what it is, even if you can’t bring yourself to admit it. every single one of those countries is a prosperous first world nation that got to be a prosperous first world nation through the use of cheap plentiful fossil fueled energy
To find out how wrong you are, just view the very interesting and entertaining video I posted above.
The UEL (without the quotes) is
“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E&feature=youtu.be”
This reasonable comment represents a 5 sigma event.
I must say as a man, I’ve never liked the idea of having a baby.
I support Birthstrike and highly encourage all climate alarmists to join. Increasing the collective intelligence of humans through self-attrition is called winning.