Posted on 01/28/2020 5:52:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
For several months after her daughter was born in 1991, Lori Day had terrifying anxiety dreams about failing to protect her baby.
Decades later, the recurring nightmares about her daughter’s safety have returned, triggered by the prospect of catastrophic climate change, said Day, 56, an educational consultant in Newburyport, Mass.
Day is one of a growing number of people who say their alarm over global warming has led them to adjust - or even abandon - hopes for biological children or grandchildren.
Last winter, Day stumbled upon the Facebook page for BirthStrike, a group of about 650 people, based in Britain, who have pledged to forgo having children because of “the severity of the ecological crisis.”
The BirthStrike Facebook page also functions as a kind of support group, said Blythe Pepino, 33, a London-based musician who founded BirthStrike in 2018. Members post about having to break up with partners who still want children, or how to cope with the emotional turmoil of staying childless.
Those most concerned about climate change in the United States tend to skew younger and female. Researchers from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication found that women are more likely than men to believe that global warming will harm future generations and will harm them personally.
In recent months, forums have cropped up online for those who have made the decision not to have children to share their feelings. In September a student at McGill University in Canada launched a campaign called “#No Future, No Children,” pledging to not have kids until the Canadian government takes more significant action to combat climate change.
(Excerpt) Read more at parenting.nytimes.com ...
Idiot alarmists failing to reproduce. Can’t see the downside, somehow.
Good. This way fewer snowflakes will create voting progeny.
What are the chances that Lori is ok with abortion?
ONE second.
[[[Decades later, the recurring nightmares about her daughter’s safety have returned, triggered by the prospect of catastrophic climate change, said Day, 56, an educational consultant in Newburyport, Mass.]]]
Precisely why schools are going down the crapper.
“abandon hopes for biological children”
“Biological” children are the best kind of children. What other kind is there?
Last winter, Day stumbled upon the Facebook page for BirthStrike, a group of about 650 people, based in Britain, who have pledged to forgo having children because of “the severity of the ecological crisis.”
It's okay. Mentally ill people should not be reproducing anyway.
Ooohh... 650 people.
Yawn.
In other words, those who tend to react most emotionally to... well.. everything.
“Those most concerned about climate change in the United States tend to skew younger and female. “
That is, the shrieking, leftist, university harridans who couldn’t find boyfriends if they walked naked through a classroom handing out free beer.
There are millions of residents of non-industrialized countries who will rush in to fill the void left by the low birth rate. They will use resources like Americans. The problem will get worse.
I don’t know anyone personally that is experiencing climate anxiety except when they have to shovel snow off the sidewalk or, in my case, I have to make sure my driveway is graded and graveled before a serious rain storm.
Yet somehow we’ll still be hip deep in idiots.
LOL. Great minds.
“Idiot alarmists failing to reproduce. Can’t see the downside, somehow.”
Me either
The left RATS have everyone scared. Can’t they see that they have been screaming about this since the 1960s and we are still hear. The kids today are getting dumbed down and can’t think for themselves. What a shame.
There’s always a bumper crop.
“Pledged”, sure you did. BirthStrike is the equivalent of getting another dozen or so cats- it’s their next level.
I can smell the cat urine through the pictures.
For those dumb @sses, terrified of the latest sky-is-falling doomsday fad,
DON’T pass on your genes.
Just imagine being the progenies of such parent(s), their lives won’t be easy or normal.
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