Birth strikers: Refusing to reproduce because climate change

[Anonymous]

I had my kids in my twenties like you are “supposed” to, when this was much less of a known issue. They’re in their late teens now.

Things like this annoy me because it’s like wtf am I supposed to do about them? They exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sadly, these thoughtful, intelligent people won’t be the ones reproducing. It will be the stupid, anti-birth control crowd who hate women and children. Their spawn will carry on the stupidity.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For how many decades have people been worried about “what the world will be like when the kids are grown?”
People all over the world, for thousands of years, have been and still are born into all sorts of circumstances, some worse than others. Yet life goes on. The world is not, and is not becoming, a worse place than it’s ever been in human history. So much drama.

And a birth “strike”? The only person you hurt by resigning to have children is yourself. No one else cares (except maybe your own parents).

We've only been adding carbon to the atmosphere for a couple hundred years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For how many decades have people been worried about “what the world will be like when the kids are grown?”
People all over the world, for thousands of years, have been and still are born into all sorts of circumstances, some worse than others. Yet life goes on. The world is not, and is not becoming, a worse place than it’s ever been in human history. So much drama.

And a birth “strike”? The only person you hurt by resigning to have children is yourself. No one else cares (except maybe your own parents).

Actually people like you really seem to care. Why does it bother you that others are not having kids?

[Anonymous]

Natural selection at work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sadly, these thoughtful, intelligent people won’t be the ones reproducing. It will be the stupid, anti-birth control crowd who hate women and children. Their spawn will carry on the stupidity.

[Anonymous]

At the very least those of us who are having children should be the most concerned about the environment and teaching our children the importance of avoiding unnecessary consumption.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For how many decades have people been worried about “what the world will be like when the kids are grown?”
People all over the world, for thousands of years, have been and still are born into all sorts of circumstances, some worse than others. Yet life goes on. The world is not, and is not becoming, a worse place than it’s ever been in human history. So much drama.

And a birth “strike”? The only person you hurt by resigning to have children is yourself. No one else cares (except maybe your own parents).

We've only been adding carbon to the atmosphere for a couple hundred years.

There have been human caused spikes in the past too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For how many decades have people been worried about “what the world will be like when the kids are grown?”
People all over the world, for thousands of years, have been and still are born into all sorts of circumstances, some worse than others. Yet life goes on. The world is not, and is not becoming, a worse place than it’s ever been in human history. So much drama.

And a birth “strike”? The only person you hurt by resigning to have children is yourself. No one else cares (except maybe your own parents).

Actually people like you really seem to care. Why does it bother you that others are not having kids?

+1 Having kids is in the aggregate bad for the environment. That's a fact. Some people are living their principles (rather than just sending superficial emails on Earth day, their prius and the importance of not having your gardener use a leafblower). That's a good thing for all involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not clicking on that weird link, but I feel very bad about the world we are leaving our children.

This.

I wish businesses would clamp down hard on business travel.

I am a manager in an organization that looooooves to fly people across the country for an hour-long meeting. I am trying to find solutions so my direct reports don’t do that stuff.

[Anonymous]

About 8 years ago, my husband's colleagues in Seattle SWORE they would never had children to protect the environment and due to overpopulation issues. A year ago, I stalked them on Facebook (hehe) and saw they had a biological child and are so in love. It makes us laugh every time we talk about it. In retrospect, I think they actually were having fertility challenges and we feel like absolute dolts for asking them when they were going to have kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:About 8 years ago, my husband's colleagues in Seattle SWORE they would never had children to protect the environment and due to overpopulation issues. A year ago, I stalked them on Facebook (hehe) and saw they had a biological child and are so in love. It makes us laugh every time we talk about it. In retrospect, I think they actually were having fertility challenges and we feel like absolute dolts for asking them when they were going to have kids.

You really shouldn’t ask people if/when they will have children for these very reasons. Not cool.

[Anonymous]

Darwin, call your office.

Attitudes like this, coupled with the Roe effect, are why I have faith in America's future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For how many decades have people been worried about “what the world will be like when the kids are grown?”
People all over the world, for thousands of years, have been and still are born into all sorts of circumstances, some worse than others. Yet life goes on. The world is not, and is not becoming, a worse place than it’s ever been in human history. So much drama.

And a birth “strike”? The only person you hurt by resigning to have children is yourself. No one else cares (except maybe your own parents).

We've only been adding carbon to the atmosphere for a couple hundred years.

There have been human caused spikes in the past too.

This land was made for you and me. We need to populate it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love my kids but kind of wish I had considered climate change before I had them. I’m horrified to think of what their world will look like whet they are my age (38). It’s going to be very different and not in a good way.

Agree

I have no idea what you’re talking about.