People Should Have Long, Complex Conversations On The Climate Ethics Of Having A Baby Or Something

Why yes, yes these people are deranged. Sadly, this is where the Cult of Climastrology is going, making people nutty

I’m worried having a baby will make climate change worse

Part of my motivation for becoming a climate scientist was my grave worries for our future and my desire to make a positive contribution. In today’s world, this isn’t straightforward.

Earlier this year, I wrote publicly of my qualms around desiring children. I have always loved children and always wanted children in my own life. At the same time, among my friends and colleagues, such ordinary desires are increasingly accompanied by long, complex conversations about the ethics of such aspirations.

Children born today face a dramatically different climate future than their parents did.A child born today is a child of a changing – and extreme – global climate. The decision to have a child is a decision to exacerbate such climate extremes.

We collectively recycle, switch off lights, install LEDs and chose green energy providers. But such measures are more than negated by a decision to have children; having a child in Australia is an ongoing commitment to a high carbon future.

Older climate scientists speak widely about their worries for their grandchildren and the world they have provided them. While such concerns must weigh on older minds, younger climate scientists’ future concerns require active deliberation. Should we have children? And if we do, how do we raise them in a world of change and inequity? Can I reconcile my care and concern for the future with such an active and deliberate pursuit of a child?

Put simply, I can’t. Nowadays, the pitter-patter of tiny feet is inevitably the pitter-patter of giant carbon footprints. Reusable nappies, a bike trailer and secondhand jumpsuits might make me feel like I’m taking individual action but they will achieve little. A child born today is inevitably a consumer and, most significantly, is a consumer of greenhouse gases.

So, having a baby is pretty much doom. Total and complete doom. It will destroy the planet.

Yet, get this: the writer, “climate scientist” Dr. Sophie Lewis is going to have a baby. She even admits that her motivation is purely selfish. But, hey, this is the norm for Warmists. Someone Else must be forced to practice what they preach. Rarely do they do more than make token changes in their own lives.

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4 Responses to “People Should Have Long, Complex Conversations On The Climate Ethics Of Having A Baby Or Something”

  1. Odysseus says:

    Another Malthusian-slip? Granted it’s always the little people who will need to be culled.

  2. drowningpuppies says:

    From the ‘Sophie’s Choice’ article…

    Nowadays, the pitter-patter of tiny feet is inevitably the pitter-patter of giant carbon footprints.

    GTFO…
    And this person is going to be a ‘parent’?
    But since looking at ‘her’ photo, it all became clear…

  3. Jeffery says:

    How dare this female scientist write in a thoughtful, smart, complex and touching way about her personal battle with infertility while pointing out the obvious conflict between having a child and advocating for slowing global CO2 emissions. The nerve!

    She even pointed out that concerns for having children in a complicated and often dangerous world is not a new issue:

    Living in and starting a family in volatile and uncertain times are not unique experiences. My grandmother fled Europe in the early 1950s for a better life in Australia. A German Jew, her family had been scattered, with herself interned in Britain, her sister lost in Auschwitz and her family’s desperate flight rebuffed by an indifferent world. Years of horror, combined with strict rations and economic uncertainty drove her to strike out bravely for a new life in Australia with her young babies.

    Certainly you don’t advocate men siring 5 (known) children by 3 different baby mamas, do you? OK, maybe now you do.

  4. Rev.Hoagie® says:

    I’ll make the same suggestion I do for all leftists: Do not reproduce. Please.

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