Stop having children to prevent extinction?

[Samson_Corwell]

@Safiel

@calirepub

@Cynic

Yep. I think these people are trying to compensate for the rest of the world.

That’s the problem. The rest of the world is having too many babies relative to the rest of us. This needs to be rectified somehow.

If it reaches a tipping point, the problem will solve itself via mass starvation or mass pandemics. Or war.

[Bill.in.PA]

Yes, there was time when extoling the virtues of motherhood was considered an uncontroversial platitude.

Now people like VHMENT are basically claiming that motherhood is a “crime against nature”.

Of course some don’t stop with just not having children: “If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable . . .”—El Paso Shooter

[amadeus]

@Bill.in.PA

Yes, there was time when extoling the virtues of motherhood was considered an uncontroversial platitude.

Now people like VHMENT are basically claiming that motherhood is a “crime against nature”.

Of course some don’t stop with just not having children: “If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable . . .”—El Paso Shooter

So you’re familiar with VHEMT. Interesting.

[Ex-Pat]

@Bill.in.PA

Yes, there was time when extoling the virtues of motherhood was considered an uncontroversial platitude.

Now people like VHMENT are basically claiming that motherhood is a “crime against nature”.

Of course some don’t stop with just not having children: “If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable . . .”—El Paso Shooter

There was also a time when almost half of all children didn’t live to become adults and the world’s population hovered around 250 million people. Population is now growing at unsustainable levels. Next time you’re in an airplane, look down on the land. Humanity is like acne on Earth’s skin.

[Safiel]

Earth has a lot more serious problems ahead then some minor acne.

[Ex-Pat]

@Safiel

Earth has a lot more serious problems ahead then some minor acne.

Humans will have 12 fingers by the time that happens lol.

[JayJay]

@Bill.in.PA

Extinction Rebellion activists are claiming that ending births is necessary to save humans from extinction because of climate change:
BirthStrikers: meet the women who refuse to have children until climate change ends | Women | The Guardian

My observation is species go extinct when they fail to reproduce. No children means human extinction is assured within a generation or two. The logical extension to no births would be to prevent extinction by mass suicide or even mass homicide.

Of course, banning immigration from low-emitting countries to high-emitting countries is also necessary as well, otherwise the population in high-emitting countries could continue to grow even without births.

The idea of preventing extinction by failing to reproduce seems ridiculous to me. How humanity can survive without children?

First of all, the idea that there will be no children born anywhere in the world is never going to happen so there’s no reason to extrapolate that it will.

And indeed, if you actually read the story as opposed to posting about it to, I suppose, ridicule the people doing it, you will find that it is indeed of the BirthStrikers to not have kids in order to solve the climate crisis.

Pepino says that BirthStrike is distinct from the antinatalist movement (which says that having children is morally wrong because sentient life is so awful), and its aim is not to discourage people from having children, or to condemn those who have them already, but to communicate the urgency of the crisis. It is a “radical acknowledgment” of how the looming existential threat is already “altering the way we imagine our future”. “We’re not trying to solve it through BirthStrike,” she says. “We’re trying to get the information out there.”

The biggest problem in this world today is people who viscerally disagree with something without actually reading/learning about it.

[Axxowiz]

This use to be a mainstream talking point with the left awhile back until they realized most children being born were not westerners.