“Massive amount of thinking–like truly stupendous amount of thinking–has gone into sex without purpose—without procreation. Which is actually quite a silly action in the absence of procreation. It’s a bit silly.” - A conversation between Elon Musk and Fridman centers
Joe
Biden and the left use climate change as an excuse for expanding
abortion without limits and attacking the Catholic Church teaching
against contraception by media fear mongering on global warming while
blaming procreation.
Elle News explains their thinking on procreation:
Birth Strikers: The Women Refusing To Have Children Because Of Climate Change
A growing number of women have vowed to abstain from procreation in response to the environmental crisis. [https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/a27162032/birth-strikers-women-children-climate-change/]
Why do these poor souls think this way?
Foreign Affairs shows that it is leftist politicians and apparently their media propaganda machine that drive these poor souls to insanity:
Climate change may or may not bear responsibility for the flood on
last night’s news, but without question it has created a flood of
despair. Climate researchers and activists, according to a 2015 Esquire
feature, “When the End of Human Civilization is Your Day Job,” suffer
from depression and PTSD-like symptoms. In a poll on his Twitter feed,
meteorologist and writer Eric Holthaus found that nearly half of 416
respondents felt “emotionally overwhelmed, at least occasionally,
because of news about climate change.”
For just such feelings, a Salt Lake City support group provides “a safe space for confronting” what it calls “climate grief.”
Panicked
thoughts often turn to the next generation. “Does Climate Change Make
It Immoral to Have Kids?” pondered columnist Dave Bry in The Guardian in
2016. “[I] think about my son,” he wrote, “growing up in a gray, dying
world—walking towards Kansas on potholed highways.” Over the summer,
National Public Radio tackled the same topic in “Should We Be Having
Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?” an interview with Travis Rieder, a
philosopher at Johns Hopkins University, who offers “a provocative
thought: Maybe we should protect our kids by not having them.” And
Holthaus himself once responded to a worrying scientific report by
announcing that he would never fly again and might also get a vasectomy.
Such
attitudes have not evolved in isolation. They are the most intense
manifestations of the same mindset that produces regular headlines about
“saving the planet” and a level of obsession with reducing carbon
footprints that is otherwise reserved for reducing waistlines. Former
U.S. President Barack Obama finds climate change “terrifying” and
considers it “a potential existential threat.”
[...]
And yet, such catastrophizing is not justified by the science or
economics of climate change. The well-established scientific consensus
that human activity is causing the climate to change does not extend to
judgments about severity. The most comprehensive and often-cited efforts
to synthesize the disparate range of projections—for instance, the
United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the
Obama administration’s estimate of the “Social Cost of
Carbon”—consistently project real but manageable costs over the century
to come. To be sure, more speculative worst-case scenarios abound. But
humanity has no shortage of worst cases about which people succeed in
remaining far calmer: from a [interestingly] global pandemic to financial collapse to
any number of military crises. [https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2017-03-21/problem-climate-catastrophizing]
Is climate change also an excuse to make the poor poorer?
Economist Mark Hendrickson who is a fellow for economic and
social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom explains that leftist climate change insanity hurts the poor the most:
There are times when politics resembles the theater of the absurd.
This is one of those times. We just witnessed the spectacle of heads of
state gathering in Glasgow trying to find ways to curtail the production
and consumption of fossil fuels
at the very time when the people they supposedly represent face a grim,
potentially lethal winter due to shortages of those vital fuels.
... In Germany, not only have energy prices to homeowners risen to record highs, but their power grid has become increasingly unstable. One power plant in Germany had to close because of a lack of coal—coal being needed to compensate for the insufficient wind energy production. Germany faces a full-blown energy crisis this winter.
“Schools, hospitals and clinics could also be much chillier—and
deadlier. At 11¢ per kilowatt-hour (average U.S. business rate), a
650,000-square-foot hospital would pay about $2.2 million annually for
electricity. At 25¢ per kWh (UK), the annual cost jumps to $5 million;
at 35¢ per kWh (Germany), to $7 million! Those soaring costs would
likely result in employee layoffs, higher medical bills, reduced patient
care, colder conditions, and more deaths,” Paul Driessen wrote for The Heartland Institute.
The severity of this energy crisis
is largely attributable to short-sighted government policies. Tilting
at the windmills of an imaginary future global warming catastrophe,
governments have impeded and restricted the production of fossil fuels.
I’m willing to grant the possibility that so-called “renewable” energy
sources (more accurately, “intermittent” energy sources) may someday
replace fossil fuels, but the policies that have been restricting fossil
fuel production before intermittent sources have come online fast
enough to meet the global demand for energy are inhumane.
Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the Biden administration (or is it the third term of the Obama administration?) is proceeding full speed ahead with an anti-fossil fuels agenda.
Earlier in the year, the president canceled the completion of the
Keystone XL pipeline, banned drilling for oil in the Arctic, and greatly
curtailed the issuance of leases for companies to develop fossil fuel
resources on public land. Now, as winter approaches with energy prices
surging and the world facing a severe energy crisis, Team Biden left
Glasgow with a plan in place for the world’s major banks to restrict investment in companies that produce fossil fuels. [https://www.theepochtimes.com/winter-2022-a-season-of-painful-enlightenment_4107522.html?slsuccess=1]
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis's Amoris Laetitia.
