How many people have to join before something becomes a “movement?”
If the cause is climate change, the answer is fewer people than there are in Homer, Alaska: population 5,697.
Even though there were only a little over a thousand signatories that day, USA Today hyped a new “climate change movement,” called “No Future, No Children” Sept. 19. [Anyone can pledge to push up the people counter but it doesn’t mean you’re being tracked to ensure compliance. –CCD Ed.]
Eighteen-year-old Canadian Emma Lim has pledged not to have children until her government “takes serious action” on climate.
“I am giving up my chance of having a family because I will only have children if I know I can keep them safe,” her website stated. “It breaks my heart, but I created this pledge because I know I am not alone. I am not the only young person giving up lifelong dreams because they are unsure of what the future will hold. We’ve read the science, and now we’re pleading with our government.”
CBS, Vice News, and Newsweek also covered Lim’s extreme promise between Sept. 16, and 19.
CBS cited Lim’s efforts as part of a growing number of teens “passionately advocating for the planet and their future living on it.”
Like USA Today, Newsweek also labeled it part of a “movement” it claimed had been “picking up steam in recent years.”
Of that media coverage, only CBS’s included any skepticism or criticism about refusing to have children for the sake of the planet — and it was minor.
SEE ALSO: Media Scheme To Eco-Shame A Billion People Ahead Of UN Climate Summit
That CBS online report only said, “While some have brushed the movement off as something young people will outgrow as they age, Lim said that’s not the case — unless something changes.”
Lim’s site asked others to join her in taking the pledge which reads: “I PLEDGE NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN UNTIL I AM SURE MY GOVERNMENT WILL ENSURE A SAFE FUTURE FOR THEM.” It had 1,900 pledges on Sept. 20.
Birthstriking isn’t a new phenomenon, but it is one that continues to be promoted by liberal media.
In 2016, NPR’s “All Things Considered” asked, “Should We Be Having Children In The Age of Climate Change?”
The New York Times, Buzzfeed and CNN have all published stories about people choosing childlessness due to climate change fears in recent years.
Read more at NewsBusters
Good grief, this Malthusian death cult is beyond belief.
If you realy listened to and beleived those Cracked Urns from back in 1970’s Life on Earth would no longer exist well THE EARTH IS NOT FRAGILE nor is it DELICATELY BALANCED
“No future ..No children “. But isn’t that the eco-anarchist main objective ?
Murder more babies , cull the population through fuel poverty to weed out the weak and poor , take everyone’s guns away and anyone that doesn’t pretend to drink the cool -aid gets disappeared .
What’s it like Nancy to have your party taken over by a clique of socialist / communists ?
Want to know how the Democrats are going to do / Just look at the market share of green voters and double it . Zero …
The first debate question to Biden … Do you know where you are ?
No no Mr . Biden this was not a trick question .
No this is not Vimy Ridge and your horse isn’t called Bucky .
Yes Mr. Biden … a pee break ? Well uh o i suppose s… oh you just had one .
If the environmental activists get their way, that would present the greatest reasons not to have children. Lack of fossil fuels for agriculture would result in food shortages and high prices. Abundant inexpensive energy is needed for a thriving economy and making it scarce and expensive would result in a depression worse than the one we had in the 1930’s. With no back up fossil fuel power plants power outages would be very frequent and often for extended periods. The impact on industry would make the depression even worse. For these reasons those who are less fit might decide not to have children. As far as myself, I’m a survivor. I have already had my children but if I were young I would do so again no matter what was happening in the world.
The new age pagan religion of Enviromentalism worship the creation not the creator
Good. These are just the type of people who shouldn’t be having children.
USA TODAY is like the NYT’s nothing but Propeganda not news in fact a few years ago USA TODAY was forced to admit they had a shot of gang members holding guns for photo shoot This is what we get from the M.S. Media Fake Pictures and Fake News with CNN/NYT’s leading the pack
Natural selection at its finest.
“Media Hypes #NoFutureNoChildren Climate ‘Movement’ In Latest Propaganda Effort”
Media???? http://www.nofuturepledge.ca/
No. Not just the media. The tally actually links to Google…..
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7pbd7KSjvFHi-T8_mLIsP3KRxIkVqqFiu2JUz0VC4egBang/viewform
Links to Google….