#birthstrike

[extincto]

Everyone quit on the spot. No notice, pack up and don't go back

[jrmilazzo]

<< Ghodsee’s book builds up to her ultimate and most radical anti-institutionalist proposal: that the modern monogamous nuclear family should be redesigned. She argues that insular family units should be replaced with communal living situations wherein care, housework, and resources would be shared among relatives, friends, and neighbors. She knows that questioning the family is still something of a third rail in the United States and other Western countries (even though the queer community has been modeling chosen family over biological bonds for quite some time now, and practices that challenge traditional families abound—polyamory, cohabitation, BirthStrike, cooperative apartment buildings, and so on). But she convincingly argues that the nuclear family is part and parcel of individualistic societies troubled by extreme wealth inequality and frayed social safety nets because it prioritizes a small, insular group over neighbors and the larger community. It is within the nuclear family unit that patriarchy reasserts itself, that capitalism reasserts itself, that property is passed down and assets are inherited, maintaining class inequality and driving competition.

For Ghodsee, therefore, we must fundamentally rethink the organization of our intimate lives. She notes that Plato said more or less the same thing in The Republic—the oikos (meaning “family” or “house”), he argued, undermined social cooperation. But she also points out the utopian behaviors that many readers might already recognize and amplify in their daily lives: Sharing more means consuming less; marriage need not determine the experience and organization of parenthood; nourishing friendships and expanding chosen family will multiply affection and care; swapping childcare with other parents will free up time; letting the kids spend more time among relatives and friends further spreads nurture; strangers can become kin; social dreaming is an act of radical hope. >>

[alondonjournal]

[ukemyworld]

We ARE nature.

Those words from David Attenborough is the only comfort regarding climate change. There have been 5 known mass extinctions in the past. There is no reason to think that somehow humans are “special” and that mass extinction does not apply to us. I will not pass a future to a child to watch them suffer for food and water, mass immigration causing fighting for the drying up of resources and eventual chaos. My wife and I have a lot of friends who recently have had babies. We are not judging them. However I am concerned for their future.

I am a school teacher and I look at my students with fear and concern. I try my best to empower them to take action. The one hope I have is that when humanity has a common enemy or problem (the environment) it has the potential to unite our species. Remember South Africa’s day zero? However, when everything is thrown into chaos from food shortages (bee extinctions, floods, droughts) and water shortages, you can imagine how dangerous the future will be.

You can already see this dark future unfolding: 21 cities in India will run out of water, including the city Chennai, where I currently live. If we pretend nothing is wrong people will perish. With this uncertainty of the direction of humanity (unity or chaos) my wife and I feel it is just unfair and cruel to bring a child into the world where I cannot guarantee food, water, and shelter in 10-15 years.

We are nature. And maybe part of our nature is to run its course to extinction. It’s happened before, and it’s happening again. In a way, we’re kind of lucky to watch how mass extinctions unfold over time.

[mirrorontheworld]

A new movement of women refusing to bring children into a world doomed by climate changed has sprung into the global spotlight.

[thehushpost]

Brit group goes on ‘birth strike’ due to severity of climate change

Brit group goes on ‘birth strike’ due to severity of climate change

The Hush Post | 8:23 pm | One-minute read |

A group working for prevention of climate change in Britain has decided to go on birth strike. Put simply, the members of the group have decided not to have children because of the severity of the ecological crisis. The women members of the group say climate change is becoming a serious problem and drought, famine and global warming is imminent. Hence,…

[infocircle-blog]

BirthStrike: Refusing to have kids, because of climate change

BirthStrike: Refusing to have kids, because of climate change

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For 33-year-old British musician Blythe Pepino the latter is a reality. Her fears about climate change are so strong she has decided not to have biological children.

“I really want a kid,” she told CNN. “I love my partner and I want a family with him but I don’t feel like this is a time that you can do that.”

So far, over 330 people have joined, of which Pepino estimates 80% are women.

[anti-marxistcult]

https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/05/women-birthstrike-climate-change/

DISAPPOINTING Group Forms, Goes On BIRTHSTRIKE Because Of Climate Change,  BirthStrike is the newest movement in the push to advance climate change regulations

LOL Yeah if your fucked up cult gets in power and spreads global communism then yeah those children will be eaten by you cunts just like that film Snowpiercer right? so good leftards stop breeding, we dont want you brainwashing another generation of screwed up snowflakes, GTFO out of the education system, the future needs strong people not weak useful idiots --- which you produce. Shove your cult “end of the world” fear mongering up your asses and your fucked up depopulation agenda. 

[dailytechnologynews]

A growing group of women concerned about climate change are choosing not to reproduce. Called BirthStrikers, they agree to not bear children “due to the severity of the ecological crisis and the current inaction of governing forces in the face of this existential threat.” https://ift.tt/2WjNr42

[currentclimate]

The report prompted Johannesson and Leylange, who were already involved in climate activism, to join BirthStrike, a mostly online community of about 300 people that was founded in England by 33-year-old singer/songwriter Blythe Pepino. The group members“declare our decision not to bear children due to the severity of the ecological crisis and the current inaction of governing forces in the face [of] this existential threat.”

This question is fundamental and controversial. Some argue that giving up on parenthood won’t make a meaningful difference in resolving climate change. Others fear it might distract people from the more systemic issues contributing to the problem, and absolve lawmakers of the responsibility of coming up with solutions. But the members of BirthStrike don’t believe that everyone should stop having children, or that their movement will solve this crisis. Some of them took the pledge because they felt hopeless; others say nothing gives them more hope for the future of the planet. Their individual stories of grief and loss bring a different human facet to the universal story of climate change.