NPR gets it right....but who is listening? August 19, 2016 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 2,701 |
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At the New Hampshire meeting, 67-year-old Nancy Nolan tells two younger women that people didn't know about climate change in the 1980s when she had her kids. Once her children were grown, "I said to them, 'I hope you never have children,' which is an awful thing to say," Nolan says, her voice wavering. "It can bring me to tears easily."
She adds that of course people are driven to procreate, and you can't really tell them not to.
One woman looks a little stunned. She's not a climate activist — just tagged along with a friend — and says she had no idea that deciding not to have kids because of the climate was even a thing.
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squigglysquid
My ass is on blast because I said my carbon footprint will be much smaller even if I never live green and drive a hummer all my life than anyone who breeds. I got told to kill myself several times...because I'm taking up resources. I approached it logically in the most non-inflammatory way I could manage...
Re: NPR gets it right....but who is listening? August 20, 2016 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 619 |
Re: NPR gets it right....but who is listening? August 20, 2016 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,197 |
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He caved to his wife's baby rabies, so he's just a fucking hypocrite.
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After many conversations, he and Sadiye ended up convincing each other. Travis decided you can't deny someone the hard-wired human fulfillment of creating a child.
Re: NPR gets it right....but who is listening? August 21, 2016 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 2,308 |
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After many conversations, he and Sadiye ended up convincing each other. Travis decided you can't deny someone the hard-wired human fulfillment of creating a child.
In other words, what wifey wants, wifey gets. If he's that smart, why didn't he find someone who didn't want baybees to marry?
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Re: NPR gets it right....but who is listening? August 24, 2016 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 1,304 |
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Miss_Hannigan
Well, there is a way to reduce our carbon footprint and population problem - massive worldwide nuclear war. Coming soon to a planet near you.
Re: NPR gets it right....but who is listening? August 24, 2016 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 2,308 |
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Cambion
I read something yesterday about someone who suggested that we need to reduce the population by about 4 billion and that a five-year worldwide ban on breeding would result in 1 billion fewer people - not ideal, but a good start. In spite of our planet's future as a gigantic oven, nobody wants to get off their ass and outlaw breeding because people think that having brats is a "basic human right" and OH NO we might offend people by telling them they can't respond to their biological urges! Well, how about the more important biological urge of surviving? We won't be doing much of that because we're reached the point where we as a species care more about fucking than we do about living.
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Cambion
Also, put a cap on how much medical intervention people can receive, regardless of age. No more keeping Aunt Judy on life support for 25 years so the family doesn't have to cry. No more saving brain-dead babies so Mommy can attention-whore her broken loaf online for ass pats. Moving more toward electric cars is good because it'll decrease the use of fossil fuels, but the biggest way you can wreck the environment is by reproducing. Another human life taking up space will do far more damage to the environment than driving a gas-guzzling vehicle or not recycling.
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the noodler
I've already got a plan to get to our friends' house with a metal roof, but from what I've read, NEPennsylvania won't get the brunt of the ash cloud. Still, don't want to breathe in flakes of cement to clog my lungs.
DH always argues with me about this plan because of "his parents". They're in their 80's. FIL is SUPER diabetic (can't even eat nuts) and MIL isn't exactly the survivalist type. DH doesn't understand that when the shit hits the fan, you need to get going where you need to go. My compound nutbar friends already said it's just DH and I. (I may sneak a cat in, but she'll have to stay in their garage).
Re: NPR gets it right....but who is listening? August 27, 2016 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,432 |
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At the New Hampshire meeting, 67-year-old Nancy Nolan tells two younger women that people didn't know about climate change in the 1980s when she had her kids. Once her children were grown, "I said to them, 'I hope you never have children,' which is an awful thing to say," Nolan says, her voice wavering. "It can bring me to tears easily."
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Bell_Flower
In other words, what wifey wants, wifey gets. If he's that smart, why didn't he find someone who didn't want baybees to marry?