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2019-07-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Couple decide not to have children because of climate change
[YAHOO] A newlywed couple are willing to give up their dream of starting a family in order to help save the planet.

Ella Starling, 27, and her husband Jackson, 29, are committed environmental activists and had always planned to have children together.

But the couple fear that the “planet is not right for a baby” and after extensively researching the risks that come hand-in-hand with climate change, have drawn to the conclusion that bringing a child into the world would be “unfeasible” right now.

“The decision to not have children hurts, but I am not convinced the future of our planet is right for a baby,” Ella admitted. “I get a lump in my throat every time I think about not having a family but until the government responds and takes action, I refuse to have a family.”

The newlyweds from Pembrokeshire believe that over the next decade, the world will face higher death rates due to increased air pollution, the regularity of extreme weather and food shortages caused by crop failure.
One of Mr. Wife’s nieces just gave birth to her third child, while the other niece is about to pop out her fourth. Both are conservative, happily married, and gainfully employed, so clearly, like the English royal duchesses, the Trump kids, and Chelsea Clinton, there are those of that generation who are not troubled by such unscientific scruples. Former part-time daughter just had her third (their first), too, and my brother’s stepson just had his first.
Posted by Fred 2019-07-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

#1 Climate-Darwin Award winners.
Posted by Lex 2019-07-28 01:31||   2019-07-28 01:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Good. The woman sounds exactly like the kind of mothers who drown their babies in bathwater, chatting up with Auntie Leslie on video-call. Or are seen taken away by cops amid murmurs of recurring SIDS cases in the family.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-28 06:21||   2019-07-28 06:21|| Front Page Top

#3 It's probably better they not reproduce.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-28 07:02||   2019-07-28 07:02|| Front Page Top

#4 ...and after extensively researching the risks that come hand-in-hand with climate change,

...a reasonable person should have drawn the exact opposite conclusion. When I used to read Deadspin (I quit about a year ago), there was this one writer who was positively in doomsayer mode, writing about imposing a carbon tax and the usual garbage. I wrote to him - 'Of all the hundreds, perhaps thousands of alarmist predictions made by people about our climate over the past forty years, name me one that turned out to be right. Just one'. Naturally I never got a response.

For me this is all you need to do to bury some nitwit parading this nonsense around.
Posted by Raj 2019-07-28 08:32||   2019-07-28 08:32|| Front Page Top

#5 The movie was intended for entertainment not as a How To guide.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-07-28 08:39||   2019-07-28 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Good. Let your defective line die out.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-07-28 09:30||   2019-07-28 09:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Could be a good thing that this couple elected to not have children.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-07-28 09:40||   2019-07-28 09:40|| Front Page Top

#8 There used to be a sect (the Shakers?) that decided reproduction was sinful, therefor prohibited. Oddly enough, after a few years there weren't any more Shakers. We can only hope that the Climate sect will go the same way. Unlike the Shakers, however, they can do a lot of damage before they're gone.
Posted by PBMcL 2019-07-28 14:19||   2019-07-28 14:19|| Front Page Top

#9 The Shakers were never in charge of the gov't to impose their lunacy on others.
Posted by AlanC 2019-07-28 14:25||   2019-07-28 14:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Wow. I learn something new everyday at The 'Burg.

PBMcL, two are left ! Their moms and dads did the dirty it seems. Let's hope they don't.
The two last Shakers Darwin forgot.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-28 14:32||   2019-07-28 14:32|| Front Page Top

#11 doubt theyll make nice furniture as a legacy...

just a debt
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-07-28 15:30||   2019-07-28 15:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Thanks, Dron. I stand corrected!
Posted by PBMcL 2019-07-28 17:19||   2019-07-28 17:19|| Front Page Top

#13 Just a convenient fig leaf. What they meant to say was, "We're having too much fun gratifying our needs to waste money on some stupid kid."
Posted by KBK 2019-07-28 22:30||   2019-07-28 22:30|| Front Page Top

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