Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?
NPR ^

Posted on 08/19/2016 1:04:22 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?

4:36 August 18, 201611:09 AM ET Heard on All Things Considered

Standing before several dozen students in a college classroom, Travis Rieder tries to convince them not to have children. Or at least not too many.

He's at James Madison University in southwest Virginia to talk about a "small-family ethic" — to question the assumptions of a society that sees having children as good, throws parties for expecting parents, and in which parents then pressure their kids to "give them grandchildren."

Why question such assumptions? The prospect of climate catastrophe.

For years, people have lamented how bad things might get "for our grandchildren," but Rieder tells the students that future isn't so far off anymore.

He asks how old they will be in 2036, and, if they are thinking of having kids, how old their kids will be.

"Dangerous climate change is going to be happening by then," he says. "Very, very soon."

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; doomage; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; malthusianism
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 next last
To: Sub-Driver

For those that have been so easily brainwashed into believing in “climate change”, no, please do not reproduce. You are too stupid.


41 posted on 08/19/2016 1:47:22 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Liberals should do their part and have no spawn.


42 posted on 08/19/2016 1:50:16 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Obviously we should stop having kids.

Only us though. Not the Mexicans.


43 posted on 08/19/2016 1:50:16 PM PDT by Toliph
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
This message bought and paid for by George Soros and the Open Borders crowd.
44 posted on 08/19/2016 1:52:44 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
No matter how bad things are, we need children to replace us when we wear out.
Do we really want a world when the responsible people have weeded themselves out of the gene pool?
How is that better?

45 posted on 08/19/2016 1:55:33 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

I would venture that $20 trillion in debt and counting is a better reason to fear for our children. Somehow that always falls off the leftist radar.


46 posted on 08/19/2016 2:02:53 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pgkdan

I have seven blue-eyed children, and grandchildren with blue eyes are appearing.

I don’t give a damn what these idiots do.


47 posted on 08/19/2016 2:05:10 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The polls can have a strong influence on the weak-minded)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

We need more middle-class people having children. That’s where the professionals and entrepreneurs will mostly come from.

Those who have been living on government benefits should be discouraged from having any children.

Current reality has this reversed.


48 posted on 08/19/2016 2:06:08 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Liberals, who believe in Gorebull warming should volunteer for sterilization to save the world.

They should stop eating and exercising to save the world.

Then, in their own way, they would help save the earth and make it a better place.


49 posted on 08/19/2016 2:10:19 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((My passion for freedom is stronger than that of the Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

“Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?”

No, your kind of stupids should not produce more liberal spawn. Have your tubes tied...don’t worry about liberal men for they do not have any nuts at all!

Hopefully, in a generation, you all will be wiped out!!!

I can dream can’t I?


50 posted on 08/19/2016 2:13:21 PM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

YES, Yes! Let’s get ALL the stupid liberals to not have any kids!!!....................


51 posted on 08/19/2016 2:16:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

I plan on founding a “break away” civilization underground in Antarctica that can grow large enough to support several billion people under the ice sheets there.

The rest of “liberal” humanity can go ahead and slit their own throats at that point to “save the earth”....


52 posted on 08/19/2016 2:20:32 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Real productive industrious Americans should be breeding like rabbits.
Instead it’s the dependent class of those who don’t wish to take part in the distinct American culture of freedom and prosperity that actually gets paid to breed.


53 posted on 08/19/2016 2:21:55 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

How stupid can one be? The students should have laughed him out of the lecture room.


54 posted on 08/19/2016 2:21:58 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Lefties insist on running your life for you - it’s what they’re all about.


55 posted on 08/19/2016 2:23:24 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GraceG
I plan on founding a “break away” civilization underground in Antarctica

Not to die but to be reborn
Away from a life so battered and torn.

56 posted on 08/19/2016 2:24:57 PM PDT by MUDDOG
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

If liberals do not want kids, fine by me.


57 posted on 08/19/2016 2:28:24 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

If liberals do not want kids, fine by me.

If they cross the line and demand people not have kids, they hve infringed on others rights.

Totally different than saying if you are on govt welfare you cant have more kids. They are already living off other people via govt welfare already. It is optional, no one forces them to take got help.


58 posted on 08/19/2016 2:31:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MeganC
You mean it wasn't because things kept getting a bit hot?

sorry, I had too...

59 posted on 08/19/2016 2:32:23 PM PDT by lafroste
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

So far Travis Rieder and his male partner have produced no kids!


60 posted on 08/19/2016 2:33:23 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson