The contradictions of environmentalists:
…the fact that the morality of having children is subject to debate in respectable liberal circles speaks volumes about just how unhinged modern progressives have become from the ordinary aspirations of ordinary people.
There’s nothing liberal about these misanthropes.
Actually, we should encourage them to act on their beliefs. As this comment from your linked article points out:
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Future generations may be far less gullible because of environmentalists who don’t have kids.
They’re making themselves Darwin Award candidates without the bother of killing themselves by removing themselves from the gene pool. So long as they have no power to force their beliefs on others (see: China One Child Policy), I hope they remain true to their proclaimed beliefs.
My favorite response to the too many of us argument is “Lead the way. I’ll be right behind you.”
Hear hear Larry. Darwin would be proud.
These are just more examples of why environmentalism is becoming increasingly disconnected from the goals and interests of humanity. Environmentalism is simply not a big enough concept to embrace current and emerging concerns of humanity. We need a bigger concept and philosophy, we need exvironmentalism 🙂
They’re making themselves Darwin Award candidates
Some of them are quite direct about it.
Talking to my neighbour yesterday, she actually said “we need to sterilize half the population and give them a radio” .. yes, you can’t make that up.
I guess the radio is so the government can tell them what to do.
Trent,
Please tell your neighbor I agree. She should be sterilized.
Ever notice how the left always exclude themselves?
My observation is the parodox of Deep Environmentalism and radical population reduction and the modern Welfare State which requires at a minimum, a stable to increasing population to exist.
M, I think she’d agree though.. she gave me a long rant about how terrible her children are.
The environmental movement went off the deep end starting in the mid 80’s when the reasonable people who comprised it in the 70’s left in order to have careers and families. The radicals that took it over were leftists driven primarily by Reagan hatred. I saw this process take place on my college campus between 1981 and 1985.
I’ve long wanted to ask Wiccans and other neopagans why they haven’t gotten around to inventing an infertility goddess. One of the goals of the sexual revolution was to liberate sexuality from childbirth, after all.
My grade school (in the 60’s) taught some environmental “science”. The stuff they were trying to indoctrinate us with back then was pretty much wacko. Maybe it was ok in the 50’s?
So the watermelons won’t have little watermelons. Where’s the down side?
The left, as a group, are doing this. And again I ask you, where IS the down side?
It’s just so plain to see. Everybody should act on their own beliefs, but not force others to act on those beliefs.
But we’re the Nazis. /sarc
Let’s see… We’re supposed to save the Earth for future generations but not have the future generations.