Posted on 11/19/2014 9:45:13 AM PST by Morgana
If you asked a scientist to create a test-tube liberal, chances are his product couldn’t hold a candle to Maria Luisa Tucker. Tucker, a new mother, is celebrating the arrival of her little bundle of joy by mooning over the “environmental impact of procreation.” Really.
For a Nov. 13 piece for Alternet, Tucker asked, “Does Having a Child Make Me an Environmental Villain?” In it, Tucker outlined her “main source” of “maternal guilt:” “the mere fact that I created a person.” “Specifically,” she wrote, “an American person who will inevitably leave a large carbon footprint.”
Her inspiration came from her environmentalist husband “who challenges me to be a better person.” (Environmental sanctimony is what passes for virtue on the left these days.) Even so, the couple has had “heated arguments” – on “composting experiments” and using cloth diapers. She described the later exchange:
“I want to use cloth diapers, too, but it’s day 10 with pee and poop soaking through them and onto my clothes, and we’re 15 loads of laundry in, and I’m the one doing it all!”
His comeback was to suggest I pay closer attention to our newborn’s “pee cycles” and change his diapers more often.
But she labeled herself as an environmentalist too. “When we started thinking about having children years ago, creating pro and con lists, I wrote ‘environmental impact’ in all caps on the cons side of the page,” she stressed.
It took a conversation with her mother for Tucker to overlook the “environmental impact of procreation” and focus instead on “Love, the missing item on my pro and con lists, the ultimate renewable energy source.”
But that thinking didn’t wipe away her guilt. She continued, “Besides the environmental toll, it seemed selfish to create a little person to care for when so many people don’t get the care they need.”
Tucker tried to compromise with a “nursery full of secondhand furniture, clothes and toys.” To “minimize” her “carbon footprint,” she created her own things: “Instead of buying a pumping bra, I cut holes in my sports bra; instead of buying tiny baby washcloths, I cut up some old cloth diapers to size.”
Until, she admitted, “All those things literally fell apart.”
And, while most people dream of their healthy newborns becoming doctors, fighter pilots or great artists, Tucker indulges in apocalyptic fantasy. After her son was born, her “concern about the environment became more concrete as I imagined him navigating a world of extreme weather.”
“It seemed increasingly important to push for big solutions,” she wrote, “starting with electing politicians who understand the seriousness of climate change.”
Thus, with her husband and baby, she attended the media-hyped People’s Climate March earlier this year with 300,000 others. During the event she spoke with others about her baby concerns.
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One mom activist, Tucker noted, “didn’t like my question about the contradiction between being an environmentalist and a parent.” She told Tucker:
Having a family is part of being human … I wouldn’t tell someone ‘you shouldn’t have children’ as much as I wouldn’t tell someone not to live past 100 because they’re a drain on the environment. It’s a value judgment about who should be alive and who shouldn’t be alive. Being able to have kids and have a livable climate should be the goal.
“My mom was right that more love is better than less love,” she concluded, “but by combining that with my persistent guilt, I hope that my son and I both become good stewards of the planet.” That kid’s got a lot to look forward to …
Her piece echoed a sentiment expressed by the left-wing National Catholic Reporter: that climate change is the number one pro-life issue.
How fortunate we are that they have a natural aversion to reproducing.
The world definitely has too many people starting with environmental writers. This woman should off herself and decrease her carbon footprint to zero, but maybe she’ll make great compost!
Too bad her mother didn’t feel the same way.
So I guess its mother then is a villain .... how dutiful ....
Can we say that these people are certifiably nuts? That they are on the lunatic fringe???
So now we are saying that a woman having a baby has an environmental impact??? We are saying that baby has a negative carbon footprint??? Do we really want to go there??
Or something like that.
That woman can’t think for herself. She’s simply repeating leftist one liners.
“person who will inevitably leave a large carbon footprint”
That sure sounds racist to me.
There you have it, women are to blame.
This is the war on women that has building to a crescendo for 50+ years.
Obviously men have no culpability whatsoever in procreation ... something I fault both left and right idealogues with from way back.
If she feels that strongly about it she could always take her child to live in India or some other third world country. It would certainly reduce the child's "carbon footprint", and her's as well. Of course it would also drastically reduce the child's chance of growing up healthy, but hey, sacrifices have to be made, right?
This woman leaves a large crazy footprint.
My first thought was she kills this kid before he reaches 5 years of age.
Guilt, guilt, guilt! Leftists cannot enjoy life because there is aways someone further Left who will make Leftist number 1 fell guilty about whatever they enjoy. A Leftist friend of mine recently commented on the new (grand) addition to our family ‘I always enjoy hearing about a new baby, it is such a sign of hope’. Maybe my happiness is rubbing off on her!
They won’t do it. I, personally asked one individual with a fight overpopulation, or words to that effect on his vehicle. It was in the Sweet Bay Supermarket parking lot in Plant City, Florida. He was exiting his vehicle and I was heading toward mine. I saw his bumper sticker on the back of his vehicle. I asked him, “That your sign?” he responded, “yes it is”. I asked him, Do you believe the Earth is overpopulated? Or words to that effect. He responded, “I do”. I asked, “Why don’t you off yourself then and lead by example?” He gave me a dirty look, turned around and walked in the store.
do these people really read what they write??
I once asked my very intelligent Socialist sister if she was going to be part of the Voluntary Human Extinction Program. She couldn’t figure out what I was asking. Leftists are so drunk on themselves, they cannot even fathom that there are very intelligent people who disagree with them.
PS-this is just Leftists using Alinsky tactics to keep their herd in line. Leftists ridicule Democrats who don’t toe the line. That’s why ‘moderate’ Democrats are silent. They can’t take the ridicule from their own. Lucky we have learned (for the most part) to ignore the ridicule.
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