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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So, they’ll have sexual relations, conceive, but not birth. Sorry, baby, my pleasure, you’re abortion. Wicked.
This is a bit like schoolkids going on strike. No one will suffer or give a monkeys other than the schoolkids and childless parents.
Next it’ll be “I’m going to start amputating my own limbs, join me” (sorry, couldn’t resist).
Seriously, what are these people smoking?
Relevant?
..OMG…Too funny..
The article, and probably most members of this movement are missing a point:
The women joining this movement never intended to have children in the first place.
It’s not a sacrifice, it’s an excuse for something THEY see as a shortcoming, that can instead be dressed up as a virtue.
The other component is a moral argument: “if you came across a person about to jump off, and you could save their life buy giving them $500, would you?”
The answer is of course yes.
But not IF:
a) I know they are definitely going to jump anyway or
b) I know they don’t intend to jump in the first place at all.
Then i get annoyed.
Beautiful
Yes, hadn’t seen it that way. Self-centred virtue signalling. Look at me! I am saving the planet!
Every now and again, solutions to non existent problems come along. This latest example from the AOC school of flawed logic, can be filed with the throwing virgins into volcanoes to please the gods, the witching stool justice principle and signs warning drivers of falling rocks!!!
To be fair, those signs should be explained as “landslides may have occurred here” and look a lot better than a sign while must visually depict a really badly built road.
But no, we see them as “rocks might fall on our heads” which our monkey brain interprets badly.
Err… Where I grew up, those signs mean exactly what they say.
I pried a 30+ pounder out of my camper shell once (hit right on the seam down the middle). Replaced two windshields from smaller ones.
The American Democrat controlled Congress just endorsed the idea by passing post-birth abortion as a woman’s “right”. Have a pang of climate change guilt? Sacrifice your newborn on the altar of FAKE climate models.
From my perspective, the single greatest thing ever created within the universe is my son’s smile.
It beats a meteor strike. That hurts everyone.
49 years ago we got married. Today we are us + 2, grown up, children (plus wives) and 3 grandsons.
My wife’s female cousin ,who lived next door to her in their childhood years, had been indoctrinated by her father, who fought in WW2, that there would be a third world war with atom bomb usage and resultant massive destruction. For those of us living at that time that was a logical extrapolation of the “Cold War”.
We carried on as normal, procreation wise, whilst the cousin and her husband, who chose not to have children, are now regretting their decision. Maybe in 50 years these “climate change” females may also regret their decision not to have children.
Situations change so my advice is just carry on as normal.
Another symptom of the harm that fear-ideology does to harm minds and lives, creating errors that can’t be undone. The current misguided virtue-signalers are encouraging others to harm their lives and futures, because of a mass delusion spread by despicable NGOs, parasites and spineless deceitful politicians.
18 months after I left Uni I decided I needed to start a business to become independent of employers so that I could be my own boss and not be reliant on opportunism or whim. I did not want a ‘job’ I just wanted to be my own employer and make money doing what I wanted to do. A self-appointed ‘best-friend’ told me that I should not bother as in two years I would be back where I’d started, having failed and needing to go work for someone else anyway. He quoted TV level ‘stats’ on how 50% of businesses failed in the first 18 months. I pointed out to him that this also meant that if I persisted the chances of my success became 75% within three years or 87.5% within 4.5 years. The longer I persist the better are my chances of succeeding in business. He insisted I was ‘missing the point’, and proceeded to show me what a terrible attitude he has.
I totally ignored his remarks and proceeded the same as I’d intended regardless and my business progressively succeeded more each quarter. Meanwhile, my now disassociated ‘friend’ was living under his mom’s house in a smelly room as an unemployed ‘proto’-bum, who graduated into a fully-fledged bum about 10 years later and no one who had known him ever heard from him again.
I learned from this to ignore people who are negative, or stoking imaginary fears and their Stats-‘O-Doom as taking their advice invited missed opportunity, personal failure and misery. I just wish I’d been told this earlier, and not had to figure it out by trial and error.
Ignoring the prophets-of-fake-doom and carrying on regardless is the path to success.
This line of thought taken to the extreme leads to suicide, with last will not to incinerate the remains.
I’ve become very tired of all the attention AOC is getting. She’s a clown, elected by the foolish.
The news media give her a platform because it gets them attention and on-line clicks.
She responds to the continuing attention with ever more stupid ideas (a natural progression). Every new stupid idea brings another bout of media attention.
It’s a cycle of stupid and exploitation; our only working example of a perpetual motion machine.
People respond because: a) they’re clownettes who think AOC is a deep-thinker who speaks for them, or; b) they see that AOC is an idiot whose publicity needs some push-back.
In either case, the media wins and the civil structure deteriorates further.
The Leftwing Media spent zero minutes reporting on AOC’s campaign finance problems. Not one mention from ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC or CNN.
An excellent trend. These are exactly the people that should not breed.
Gone from
It’s nobody’s business what a woman does with her body,
to
We DEMAND that you make what we do with our bodies your business.
Have a brat, don’t have a brat, no skin off my nose.
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.
Good. That means they won’t be infecting offspring with their insanity. Let the sane rational people have the babies. This is a good thing for the human race. And any guy married to one of these Birthstikers, there’s you clue that you need to seek a divorce ASAP for your own safety and piece of mind.
Is being best known by an acronym derived from first letters of your various names the new famous?
Yours truly,
RGK
If you are referring to AOC, it seems to be a thing when people go by 3-part names. The other examples from years gone by (political and entertainment) so not a new thing
FDR = Franklin D. Roosevelt (President of US 1930s-1940s)
JFK = John F Kennedy (President of US 1960s)
JNT = John Nathan Turner (Producer of Doctor Who back in the 1980s)
JDF = Jason David Frank (Actor who played the Green/White/Red/Black ranger in the Power Rangers franchise in the 1990s)
The other examples , I can think of,
Not sure why I missed typing part of that sentence.
Married people who take their spouse’s last name have an advantage on this then. (^_^)
I think AOC should be equated to OOG (i.e., what a caveman/caveperson without higher mental development would utter).
Is this really for a weekend spectacle, a monthly period, or what?
Wooo Hooooooo…..No more liberals……
Just think how the gene-pool would benefit if AOC went on birth-strike.
I’m all for it. Such people should never reproduce. Think of it as voluntary natural selection.
I approve of any of these unthinking women going on permanent birthstrike. They will not pass their genes on to future generations. Hopefully this will help clean the genepool, leaving more people capable of rational thought.
Good…..they are obviously too stupid to reproduce. The problem solves itself.
They should go on a no sex strike. Then they can’t get pregnant. Just miserable.
Probably ugly too.
Worlds population now = 7,700,000,000
BirthStrike movement = 0,000,000,060
Projected world population = 7,699,999,940 (based on models)
It certainly looks like they might make a difference.
We could look at it another way though:
Worlds population now = 7,700,000,060
BirthStrike movement = 0,000,000,060
Projected world population = 7,700,000,000 (based on models)
Much like the difference that the Shaker Movement made.
Population wise the difference is little more than a Bowel Movement
That’s good – they most likely wouldn’t vaccinate their kids anyway, adding to the resurgence of childhood diseases problem.
Thank you. Your progeny would have lowered the World’s IQ, and consumed too many resources for their lives.
On the other hand, why not abort just after birth for parts????