Posted on 02/05/2018 12:56:44 PM PST by PROCON
Add this to the list of decisions affected by climate change: Should I have children?
It is not an easy time for people to feel hopeful, with the effects of global warming no longer theoretical, projections becoming more dire and governmental action lagging. And while few, if any, studies have examined how large a role climate change plays in people’s childbearing decisions, it loomed large in interviews with more than a dozen people ages 18 to 43.
A 32-year-old who always thought she would have children can no longer justify it to herself. A Mormon has bucked the expectations of her religion by resolving to adopt rather than give birth. An Ohio woman had her first child after an unplanned pregnancy — and then had a second because she did not want her daughter to face an environmental collapse alone.
Among them, there is a sense of being saddled with painful ethical questions that previous generations did not have to confront. Some worry about the quality of life children born today will have as shorelines flood, wildfires rage and extreme weather becomes more common. Others are acutely aware that having a child is one of the costliest actions they can take environmentally.
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Darwin's theory at work.
Idiocracy
Darwin was right......................
Leftists who believe in Climate Alarmism haven’t been having kids for decades. That’s why they need legal and illegal immigrants.
Actually more like the student loans generation doesn’t want to marry someone $300K in debt to pay for a B.A.in sociology, a Range Rover, and six spring breaks in Florida and St. Barts.
These people are off their rocker.
Anyone who is too stupid to think for themselves on “climate change” - we are better off if they do NOT reproduce!
Liberals should not have children.
I’m sure their children would thank them for it, too.
So was P.T. Barnum.
No children, yet they are OK with bringing more illegals into the US to let them produce more pollution.
40 years ago the left convinced me not to have kids due to global cooling caused by air pollution.
BTW I have 8 kids now.
Libs. That’s why they need to import others to steal what we have.
I fully support this.
Warmists should also reject all elements of modern technology, and adopt an aboriginal lifestyle - to save the planet, of course.
I mean, it would be totally hypocritical of them to continue living the toxic, planet killing lifestyle, right?
Every one of them should get a Darwin Award on their tombstones.
Darwin would be rolling over in his grave laughing at these Fruit Loops with their Global Warming paranoia.
They will mandate that the dissenters cannot kill the planet via procreation.
Well they will either figure it out or succumb to water borne parasites.
Nature has a way of weeding out the weak.
They are hypocrites because they want OTHER people to change THEIR lifestyle.
Just my thinking. See Post #36
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