Guest essay by Eric Worrall
CNN is celebrating green efforts to ensure that any genetic tendency towards being a climate alarmist is eliminated from the human gene pool.
BirthStrike: The people refusing to have kids, because of climate change
By Stephanie Bailey, CNN
Updated 1314 GMT (2114 HKT) June 10, 2019London (CNN) Climate change is rapidly changing the environment we live in. But how far would you be willing to go to help save the planet?
Would you skip school? Eat pig’s feet? Deliberately get arrested? How about forgo having kids?For 33-year-old British musician Blythe Pepino the latter is a reality. Her fears about climate change are so strong she has decided not to have biological children.
“I really want a kid,” she told CNN. “I love my partner and I want a family with him but I don’t feel like this is a time that you can do that.”
Pepino believes that there will be an “ecological Armageddon” and founded BirthStrike at the end of 2018. BirthStrike is a group of people who are declaring their decision not to have kids because of climate change.So far, over 330 people have joined, of which Pepino estimates 80% are women.
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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/05/health/birthstrike-climate-change-scn-intl/index.html
For the record I think climate alarmists probably should reproduce. Having a few people around who worry about everything is likely an evolutionary advantage. Better to have a few people around who jump at shadows than to overlook a real threat.
But if a group of the most committed alarmists choose not to reproduce, who are we to object? Their self sacrifice might well be a balance of nature kind of thing.
I think this is great – a kind of “progressive” Darwin Award in which protagonists self-select not themselves out if the gene pool but their future blood lines. They are surely doing humanity a favour and should be heartily supported in their goals, perhaps by being offered sterilisation, this precluding the potential outcomes of later changing their minds.
If only Greta Thunberg’s parents had made that connection earlier. Really, folks, I sometimes feel that I am inhabiting a parallel universe when I read this stuff. The capacity for human stupidity seems to be truly infinite.
But, hey, I’m with Eric on this one. Let’s not get in the way of what appears to be the latest expression of Darwinian species self-preservation.
In short, I have no issue with alarmists having no issue.
That makes me smile, fewer abusive parents around to damage their progeny a la Greta. It’s really a win, win situation!
Back in my high school days in the 1960s, I remember reading a letter in the Ann Landers column from someone who was so certain that the US and USSR would start a nuclear war and destroy civilization that she decided not to have a baby and expose it to such conditions.
No nuclear war. And the air is cleaner too.
If alarmists go extinct, who will be the next clowns ?
Very sad story 🙁
What could be more senselessly pathetic than deliberately committing genetic suicide because of irrational fears driven by ‘Climate Change’ fraud?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Can you imagine the anger when these dupes finally realise that the whole thing is just a bad joke.
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Albert Einstein
Reminds me of the famous letter to the Kansas school board. Stupidity removes itself from the gene pool, proving Darwin right.
I’m confused. A strike withdraws something valuable from somebody else – your labour, your custom, your support. Who values these people’s children other than themselves? Who is suffering a loss from this strike other than themselves?
Or are they so obsessively self-centred they think we are suffering because we are doing without their children?
Please can these people devise a badge or tattoo that would enable them to identify and create a right-on fashion for this among their fellow traveller eco loons of various sorts. Not only will they feel smugly superior to the rest of humanity but they can advertise the fact. This really is a win all round. Good luck to them with this particular policy aim.
Sounds an awful lot like lemmings, but funny.
One estimate of 100000 induced abortions after the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Probably wrong to be flippant about this subject.
I feel very sorry for these people. They are victims. They have been lied to relentlessly by a group of (obviously) very convincing charlatans. The charlatans are doing it for goodness knows what reasons – self-aggrandisement or financial gain perhaps – but for these victims the end result is destruction of their lives. Can you imagine how they will feel when they discover when past child-bearing age that they were conned. At the personal level this is more important than the degradation of the economy already being caused by the lies. If the charlatans had any shred of decency they would stop, now that others are getting badly hurt. Many of them simply don’t care at all for anyone else of course, but for those that do – and for the scientists who have doubts but have kept quiet – please, this thing has now gone too far and it’s time to break ranks.
14. The scientific reality is that increasing atmospheric CO2 will cause increased plant and crop yields, and possibly some minor, beneficial global warming.
There will be no catastrophic warming and no significant increase in chaotic weather resulting from increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
Reference: “Greening of the Earth and its drivers”
by Zaichun Zhu et al, April 25, 2016
https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3004
Reference: “Countering The Misinformation Of Al Gore’s Dirty Weather Report”
by Ian Clark, Bob Carter, Madhav Khandekar, Tim Ball, November 14, 2012
http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&id=751
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17. Commentary concerning global warming and climate change catastrophes are typically political propaganda, not scientific reality.
The leaders of the radical greens typically know they are misleading the public. The Climategate emails provide irrefutable evidence of their misconduct. Their followers typically believe the falsehoods, and apparently do not have the education or the intellectual ability to do otherwise.
Reference: https://wattsupwiththat.com/climategate/
Reference: https://www.thegwpf.com/climategate-a-scandal-that-wont-go-away/
Reference: http://www.theclimategatebook.com/about-the-book/table-of-contents/
“CO2, Global Warming, Climate and Energy”
by Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., June 2019
pdf format:
https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/co2-global-warming-climate-and-energy-june2019-final-.pdf
Excel spreadsheet:
https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/co2-global-warming-climate-and-energy-june2019-final.xlsx
330 people have joined, I don’t think that is enough to have a noticeable effect on human genetic diversity. As for these people being victims, in the internet age it has never been easier to educate yourself and cross-check any information that you are presented with. The climate is changing rapidly apparently, don’t these people if look out of their windows? As for climate Armageddon, don’t be ridiculous!
So, let me get this straight.
If, in our 60’s, my wife and I pledge not to have children, we should join the climate alarmist cause?
And are we compelled to disclose previous ‘indiscretions’, including having three (now grown up) children who are bearing us grandchildren, for consideration.
I think I’ll pass.
Gee, what a sacrifice that is (NOT!). It is not about “saving the planet”. The planet is doing just fine. It is about The Them getting attention. Some day, they’ll die and no one will come to their funerals or remember who they were.
I am one of the male birth strikers. It’s not that I don’t like kids. It that I looked and listened to Alyssa Milano, Bette Midler, Cher, Madonna, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnel, Hillary Clinton and those women likely to be attracted to me and said “Ah, Hell no.”
Don’t you just love it that in the 21st century, pop entertainers are given a forum to rant their lunatic ideology about subjects they’re demonstrably completely ignorant about? Go, mainstream media!
It’s virtue signaling on steroids. They’re pretending to give up having children, which they weren’t planning to have anyway, “for the planet”. How noble. So in addition to being morons, they are liars and hypocrites.
“I really want a kid,” she told CNN.
Note to Blythe:
In the UK there are around 6,000 children who need to be adopted every year.
https://www.familylives.org.uk/advice/your-family/fostering-adoption-kinshipcare/adopting-a-child/
In the US, as in other countries, Social Security is pay-as-you-go. We rely on the next generation of workers to cover our retirement payments. Those of us who are working age pay for the current retirees and we also pay to raise kids until they’re ready to enter the workforce.
Someone who doesn’t have kids avoids that expense and gets half of a free ride. It won’t even make much difference to move public opinion since the ideological left controls almost all of public education from K-12, and through university.
Of Dodos caught in conflation of logical domains and Ducks.
You know, celibacy is hereditary…