Climate alarmist champions limiting families to one child; claims having more children is 'selfish'



Climate alarmists are becoming increasingly forthright about their hostility toward human life.

Donnachadh McCarthy, a failed politician involved in Just Stop Oil and one of the leading figures of Extinction Rebellion, recently went on British television to peddle depopulationist solutions to imagined problems. McCarthy suggested to GB News — just weeks after calling for Israeli forces to surrender — that "there is a moral issue" with having too many children and that families should be limited to one child.

When China adopted as policy the voluntary scheme McCarthy proposed Tuesday, it ended up with a half-billion dead children, a devastating sex ratio imbalance, and a demographic crisis. It's clear, however, that a similar population collapse is precisely what McCarthy and other alarmists want for the West.

McCarthy — who has previously shared a stage with photo opportunist Greta Thunberg — made clear that he regards children as mobile pollutants, citing disputed statistics as evidence.

"Every child in an industrial country like ours has around 505 hundred tonnes of carbon over their lifetime," said McCarthy, who has himself fed plants with his carbon dioxide for over 64 years. "That's equivalent to 1,000 years of electricity for a household. So each child has an impact, and we're saying one is great, two is plenty, and three is selfish."

McCarthy made clear that he is not only concerned about procreation in Western nations like the United Kingdom — which accounts for less than 1% of global carbon dioxide emissions. He similarly bemoaned the British government's apparent failure to do more to help the developing world abort its young.

"When women have access to family planning, rights to work and a right to education, the birth rate falls naturally," he said. "What I think is tragic is that the U.K. government have cut funds for girls in the developing world, and I think that is sad."

McCarthy appears to have been referring to the U.K.'s 2022 reduction in funding for foreign abortions, euphemistically referred to as sexual and reproductive health rights, by nearly a third.

The climate alarmist has long been a proponent of abortion, claiming that the pro-life position of the "patriarchal Abrahamic religions ... is a stain on human progress."

Despite his apparent desire to have the human population reined in, McCarthy's group Extinction Rebellion elsewhere claims to be a movement for the young dedicated to combating a system "contemptuous of humanity."

Nicole Ratcliff, a parenting coach on the GB News panel with McCarthy, said in response to the radical's depopulationist rhetoric, "I am one of four. I'm sorry, we've got a lovely family, and the idea that three is selfish is shocking."

"For me, I think if someone is choosing not to have children because of climate change, that is not somebody who is driven to have them," said Ratcliff. "The need to have children is something that is built within us, and if you are somebody that wants to have them, then you can't switch that urge off."

"There are people out there pending every single penny that they have got to have a child, and if they are made to feel guilty they are contributing to climate change — I feel quite offended by the idea that bringing a much-loved child into the world would be a bad thing to do," added Ratcliff.

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Like other radicals, McCarthy's climate hysteria has not only pitted him against big, happy families, but also againstdaily showers, affordable energy, holiday flights, road trips, water hoses, critics of communist China, meat, and pet ownership.

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World Economic Forum adviser deems fewer English babies 'good news' for the planet



Birth rates are bottoming out in the Western world. While some might consider this demographic trend worrisome — perhaps indicative of a worsening culture of death and/or societal collapse — an Oxford academic and World Economic Forum adviser recently expressed joy, calling the prospect of fewer English babies a "good thing."

According to official figures, the number of babies born in England and Wales last year was at a two-decade low, reported the Guardian.

America similarly has seen its general fertility rate plummet to all-time lows in recent years, recording roughly 56 births per 1,000 women in 2020 — about half of what it was in the 1960s.

In addition to 51.4% of the babies being born out of wedlock, Britain's Office for National Statistics revealed that nearly one-third of babies were born to immigrants.

When pressed by the Telegraph about Britain's slipping birth rate, Sarah Harper, director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, said that fewer English babies are "good for ... our planet."

Rather than seek to replace the country's fading native population, Harper would prefer to see non-Western nations replenish the human stock.

Harper, who served on the prime minister's Council for Science and Technology between 2014 and 2017, said, "I think it's a good thing that the high-income, high-consuming countries of the world are reducing the number of children that they're having. I'm quite positive about that."

Declining fertility in countries such as Britain and the U.S. would reduce the "general overconsumption that we have at the moment," claimed Harper, glossing over not only the incredible waste and emissions of poorer countries, but the restorative technologies and initiatives launched by richer nations.

Harper further suggested to the Telegraph, "We will see smaller populations in high-income countries going forward. It's just going to be a trend of the 21st century and that will actually be good for general overall consumption that we have at the moment and our planet."

The Oxford academic appears to be partial to the depopulationist agenda advanced by the likes of anti-human American biologist Paul Ehrlich, the Club of Rome, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, CNN founder Ted Turner, and the radical British group Population Matters.

Population Matters, which recently had Harper join as a speaker, cautions that each new human being brings with them the guarantee of carbon emissions. The depopulationists advocate for abortion and shrinking family sizes.

One patron of the group, "Planet Earth" narrator David Attenborough, has stated, "All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people."

While Harper, Attenborough, and others don't bother disguising their revulsion for humanity, some climate alarmists, like leftist academic Robin Maynard, now couch their calls for pre-emptively erasing future generations within the rhetoric of "family planning, gender equality and education."

The impact of this anti-human propaganda, parroted by some Democrats, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), has been significant, as the fears whipped up by climate alarmists are successfully dissuading some young couples from becoming parents, as demonstrated by a 2020 study published in the journal Climatic Change.

Morgan Stanley analysts told investors in 2021 that the "movement to not have children owing to fears over climate change is growing and impacting fertility rates quicker than any preceding trend in the field of fertility decline."

The Telegraph noted there will be fallout from the course the depopulationists wish the West to pursue. For instance, while declining birth rates may reduce consumption rates, they will also place greater strain on younger generations to pay more in tax for the health care of older generations, including Harper's.

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