The always unhinged New Republic thinks they’re on to something
Is It Cruel to Have Kids in the Era of Climate Change?
Some argue that bringing children into a decaying world is immoral.
Decaying, baby, decaying! From a tiny increase in the global temperature that is less than most previous warm periods
In one of his early works, the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche relayed an Ancient Greek legend about King Midas pursuing the satyr Silenus, a wise companion of the god Dionysus. When Midas finally captures Silenus, he asks him what “the best thing of all for men†is. “The very best thing for you is totally unreachable,†Silenus replies: “not to have been born, not to exist, to be nothing.â€
27-year-old Raphael Samuel from Mumbai offered an echo of this argument to the BBC this month. Samuel plans to sue his parents for bringing him into a world of suffering without his consent. “Why should I suffer? Why must I be stuck in traffic? Why must I work? Why must I face wars? Why must I feel pain or depression? Why should I do anything when I don’t want to? Many questions. One answer,†Samuel wrote on his Facebook page: “Someone had you for their ‘pleasure.’â€
Once, such thoughts might have seemed far-fetched or even self-indulgent. Today, however, similar reasoning—known as “antinatalism—seems to be spreading as potential future parents contemplate bringing children into a world climate change is likely to devastate. “Why did you have me?†Samuel asked his parents as a child. If the bleak scenarios about the planet’s future come to fruition, will parents have a satisfying answer to such questions?
I think it would be a great idea if all Warmists refused to have children. We can do away with this whole stupid thing within 20 years.
Anyhow, all sorts of Thing Important are mentioned as the article yammers on, but forgets the reality: this contemplation is nothing new for the Cult of Climastrology, which has advocated limiting births in developing nations, which are full of those black and brown people. Oh, and this idiot
“There’s scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult. And it does lead young people to have a legitimate question: is it okay to still have children?”
—@AOCReminds me of the Green New Deal FAQ:
????https://t.co/3RtWZeVbJZhttps://t.co/TWTYJvbb0P— Jerry Dunleavy ???????? (@JerryDunleavy) February 25, 2019
Like, this youngster with all her worldly experience, like, hopefully doesn’t have kids, like, herself. But, like, she won’t like, give up her own, you know, fossil fuels, like, usage.
