[–] novictim 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago (edited ago)
Climate-change activists are mobilizing to cut the birthrate, arguing that richer nations should discourage people having children in order to protect them from the ravages of global warming and reduce emissions.
When you feed the third world with donated food aid and then let them flood the first world, yep, you get global warming moving in the wrong direction and you undermine the only cultural force that gives a damn.
When you run down one child policies in China and then stay silent as China and India overtake all the rest of the world combined in carbon emissions then, yep, you get global warming moving in the wrong direction.
Environmentalists lost all their credibility, lost their central purpose, when they stopped advocating for birth control and reduced global populations "'cause that's somehow racissss".
Instead, now, they tend to complain about Islamophobia and Colonialism? Huh?
And how did that change in focus happen? Coalitions building. Intersectionality.
Social Marxist Feminists and self hating leftist SJWs infiltrated environmental movements, displaced the rational, science driven leadership, hijacked the message, and turned the notion of good stewardship of the earth into a nutbag, hodgepodge of identity politics molded to brain-dead cultural relativism bent first and foremost on nailing European societies to the cross for the phony crimes produced recounted only by the left's own historical revisionism.
Am I mistaken? Go find a so called "environmental activist" who does not subscribe to open borders and unlimited immigration and bemoans the crimes of Colonialism and Imperialism. (And underneath all of that is the classic SJW "bigotry of low expectations" that disallows the agency of "indigenous" fuck-up cultures to be horrendously destructive all on their own! Yes, it's the "White Man's burden" just with new packaging and Marx thrown in).
The entire environmental movement in the West (where else is it?) has become a cult of nitwits lead by brainwashed gurus whose main objective is the destruction of their own society because XY and Z supposed wrongs/ills /historical-ignorance. But it all rests on a pathological need to live out -through others!- some parallel Jesus-on-the-cross experience , a yearning need to be virtuous and to be seen to be virtuous. It is a disease of the mind, a sick debasement of what the West has achieved through reason for humanity all for the sake of a primitive god-cult from a desert tribe that otherwise produced nothing of historical importance for humanity.
[–] Totenglocke 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
There's an easy and fair way - stop giving people tax deductions for having kids and people who are married.
People taking responsibility for their choices is a terrifying concept!
[–] Voat_a_Goat_Mamma [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The only people that get tax deductions are the ones that work. Wouldn't you prefer we reduce children in the workless population? Reduce or get rid of welfare, free lunches, and medicaid. That would get rid of kids fast in the workless populations.
[–] Amateur_Wizard 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Climate change activists? Oh, George soros you mean?
[–] MetalAegis 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
Yeah sure, tax fertility rates from 1.5 kids per white family to 0...
[–] Voat_a_Goat_Mamma [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
We have a surplus of children being raised in poverty. It would be easier to just remove supports for said kids. That way no one is taxed, which is bad...but less children would be around.
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[–] SenecaTheYounger 0 points 13 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago
It's sad you are getting down votes for this. From the article itself:
Poor nations would be cut slack “because they’re still developing, and because their per capita emissions are a sliver of the developed world’s. Plus, it just doesn’t look good for rich, Western nations to tell people in poor ones not to have kids,” NPR said.
This is a roundabout way saying "Any nonwhite country won't be asked to do this"
[–] MistaMusick 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Earth to dumbass it's usually the poor and people on welfare who are having the most kids. Force tubal ligation on those people and tax breaks for people who opt to wait and have children.