Birthstrike due to climate change July 27, 2019 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,425 |
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She says that even climate activists are in denial about the gravity of the situation, with her own BirthStrike eliciting responses such as “maybe it won’t be so extreme and apocalyptic” and “life is about having children”. She believes it is already too late to claw back the damage done. “That’s why I am not having one – because I feel so desperately that it would be bringing a life into a future that does seem ever more desolate. Every time a friend tells me they’re pregnant, or planning on having children, I have to bite my tongue.”
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As soon as Blythe Pepino got together with her partner Joshua two years ago, she felt “this overwhelming urge to create a family with him”, she says.
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BirthStrike, she says, “is about saying: ‘It is OK to make this choice, but it’s not OK to have to make this choice.’ We should never be in a situation where we are genuinely scared to bring life into the world.”
Re: Birthstrike due to climate change July 29, 2019 | Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 499 |
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So can someone explain to me why "creating a family" always has to be synonymous with "produce biological offspring?" You can create a family with foster kids. I mean it's not going to save the planet, but giving a home to a child that's already here is like the reproductive version of recycling and you'd think these environmentally-conscious people would be snatching up foster kids because of it. Not to mention you get fucking paid to take these kids!
At least they have the sense to feel the need to make this choice instead of the usual reason people have kids they don't need and can't afford, which generally boils down to "ME WANT BABBY!"