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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It’s too easy to just say “Good, go for it. Don’t have any kids.” But I can’t help wondering how many of these women have pets. Talk about a carbon footprint.
Thre should be some sub set of the Darwin Awards for these people. They are clearly improving the gene pool. At least in their own countries if not overall.
This is a phenomenon of fake-news psychosis.
The participating women are programmed zombies of irresponsible news reporting.
I think there could be future class-action-lawsuit material here for these women, IF they were to wake up and realize how they were duped out of a family by an epic scam.
It’s a pity their grandparents did not have the same idea.
Perhaps they can retrospectively sue them for damage to Gaia.
Yes please. Strike, please do so ! Natural extinction of a potentially unwanted species. More room for the mentally fit.
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You are saying their babies are of another species? I admit progressives are a strange breed, but I am pretty sure they are the same species as us.
This could lead to wiping out some genes that are responsible for irrational Progressive behaviors.
As GK Chesterton put it:
‘Why should we falter, ours shall be the mirth,
Yours the amaze when you have thinned away
Your starveling clerks to fit their starveling pay,
And seen the meek inheriting the earth.’
These people are such hypocrites, what’s the chances they will actually stick with their pledge? Unfortunately, most of these women will end up having children. It’s a very strong biological drive.
Indeed. It’s mainly virtue signaling. the ones among them who are capable of having children (IE of child bearing age and not opposed to having sex with men), sadly, are all too likely to have kids at some point in the not too distant future – children that they’ll infect with their loony ideas.
Maybe it’s not too late for the mothers of these mothers to abort them (Virginia)?
Since they are not abstaining from sex, which means they are still at risk for conception (a.k.a. “burden”), and it is their wicked purpose to carry out a birth strike (a.k.a. planned parenthood), is it the women’s intent to hold their babies’ lives hostage on pain of abortion, decapitation, dismemberment, and sequestration, unless their demands for, ironically, anthropogenic, perhaps catastrophic, climate change are not met to their satisfaction?
With all due respect to these women, this is dumb. Simply dumb.
YES! Let this be true… Progressives no longer breeding. There is some hope after all.
OT… here is someone who will never father children again. Evidently being a billionaire was not satisfying enough for this man. He undergoes penis surgery at age 65, and dies on the operating table. I would assume that the ensuing lawsuit will be appropriately huge considering his wealth, …https://www.foxnews.com/health/billionaire-diamond-trader-dies-during-penis-enhancement-procedure-reports-say
They deserve Honorary Darwin Awards.
60 Women decide not to have children? How is this news? Come back to me when it’s 60,000. And then let’s track how many of those 60,000 women follow through.
Crazy!
“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.”
The world I live in now is vastly different to the world I was born in to. Everything is different now than it was then. For example, fewer open fires which lead to cleaner air. Proper waste water treatment, refuse collection an disposal. Better food availability. Better health. Better transport and better technology. Have I missed any of the basics? I refuse to say better education but certainly vastly better access to information without having to leave the house to get to a library.
Artificial selection at its finest…
AOC looks like she is preaching to the faithful.
Joanna Lumley is on a “crusade” too!
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/joanna-lumley-s-new-role-saving-the-environment-20190306-p51267.html#comments
I bet she didn’t give too hoots to the environment when she was making her way up the fame chain.
She got religion.
Is now a Saint.
All is forgiven.
“We’re on a mission from gawd!”
Their “children” definitely will never know what snow is.
Isn’t this similar logic as in the scene in “The Life of Brian” where men now have the right to bear children?
Secondly, can I join as an associate member being a 60+ male with a vasectomy? Pretty certain I won’t adding to the gene pool.
As usual, Monty Python were decades ahead of their time. Too bad some of them, while lamenting how PC culture has destroyed satire, still mock those they believe aren’t “progressive” enough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgp9MPLEAqA
STAN: Women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement, Reg.
FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN: I want to be one.
REG: What?
STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me ‘Loretta’.
REG: What?!
LORETTA: It’s my right as a man.
JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!
LORETTA: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But… you can’t have babies.
LORETTA: Don’t you oppress me.
REG: I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb! — Where’s the fetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: [crying]
JUDITH: Here! I– I’ve got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can’t actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans’, but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What’s the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?!
FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.
Better than I remembered it.
Look on the bright side. The more idiots that sign up to this mistitled birth strike the less idiots will be born.
That is a positive for the human gene pool.
This sort of lunacy is reminiscent of religions. Adherents get nuttier and nuttier as they look for new ways to show their devotion. The parallels with the various apocalyptic cults are striking.
Yes, see my comment above, re: the Shakers.
Religious fundamentalists are crazed, whether their religion is an old book, or climate science.
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle summed it up in Oath of Fealty
I absolutely support their efforts – remove your defective genes from the pool.
Take away whatever genetic disposition there is to blindly believe, and believe hard, any form of bullshit the media presents to you.
I am currently designing a sales and marketing campaign for a BirthStrike! product.
It is a Red Pill, with the BirthStrike! logo imprinted in white.
The directions say that in the onset of child making, remove the wrapper (they are individually hygienically wrapped) then place between knees and grasp tightly until the event passes.
Volume pre-orders are currently being taken. 0.04% of all sales will be donated to further research and parties.
Good.
Less future lefty welfare bums to support.
Yeah, but the second shoe hasn’t dropped yet: the number of men who believe they are women, and who want to give birth, will now drain our public health care dollars.
Don’t believe me?
http://www.cancer.ca/en/prevention-and-screening/reduce-cancer-risk/find-cancer-early/screening-in-lgbtq-communities/trans-women-and-cervical-cancer-screening/?region=on