Posted on 12/15/2007 7:39:54 AM PST by goldstategop
As I say, the above demographic audit has become something of an annual tradition in this space. But here's something new that took hold in the year 2007: A radical antihumanism, long present just below the surface, bobbed up and became explicit and respectable. In Britain, the Optimum Population Trust said that "the biggest cause of climate change is climate changers – in other words, human beings," and professor John Guillebaud called on Britons to voluntarily reduce the number of children they have.
"Every person who is born," says Toni Vernelli, "produces more rubbish, more pollution, more greenhouse gases and adds to the problem of overpopulation." We are the pollution, and sterilization is the solution. The best way to bequeath a more sustainable environment to our children is not to have any.
What's the "pro-choice" line? "Every child should be wanted"? Not anymore. The progressive position has subtly evolved: Every child should be unwanted.
By the way, if you're looking for some last-minute stocking stuffers, Oxford University Press has published a book by professor David Benatar of the University of Cape Town called "Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence." The author "argues for the 'anti-natal' view – that it is always wrong to have children … . Anti-natalism also implies that it would be better if humanity became extinct." As does Alan Weisman's "The World Without Us" – which Publishers Weekly hails as "an enthralling tour of the world … anticipating, often poetically, what a planet without us would be like." It's a good thing it "anticipates" it poetically, because, once it happens, there will be no more poetry.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
BFL
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Eternal teenagers - creepy. Really creepy.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Great, the left can continue with this, their dieology in this regard, and folks like me will continue with ours. I have five kids. Two are married and have already produced 6 grandkids. I expect to have a good 20 or so grandkids before it is done.
At those rates, with the left having very few or none, and folks like me producing hundreds of great and great-great grankids...and teaching them conservative principles and to raise thier own properly as God-fearing all-American individuals...in another 2-3 generations...there will be no-left of any consequence.
Of course, they will not leave it at that...they will try to force me to adopt their principles and that will be the rub. They will seek, while they can, to gain the reigns of power and then use it like the tyrants they are to enforce their anti-American, anti-liberty views on the rest of us. Therefore the need to continue to not only beat them in the family-raising areana...but to continue to beat them in the areana of ideas.
Unless the antis demand the pro baby faction to “abort” their babies too.
"Go bump yourself off and we'll gladly forgive and forget what you're squawkin' about"
--Carson Robison, 1932
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yep, it’s probably better that the wackos don’t have kids. The ‘breeders’ will rule.
I have said it before....
Those who would have this “children are bad for the planet” view of life...these are the ones who are bad for the planet.
They serve no function, excepting their own selfish hedonistic fulfillment.
Talk about selfish!
It is the function of organic life forms to procreate. (Or, as the Bible encourages us “Be fruitful and multiply”)
Fulfilling this basic, primal reason for being ((Which has also received the Seal of Approval from God, Himself), is the only reason for drawing breath.
These chowderheads are wastes of DNA and they are not only sucking up perfectly good oxygen, they are “polluting the planet” with their self described selfish, pointless carbon emissions.....
That's exactly right. That's why they want to keep a stranglehold on the school situation.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Exactly...and makes it all the more clear who precisley it is that is inpriring their cause. We are fighting against principalities and powers of darkness in high places that are attacking us on all fronts be it raising families, marriage, morality, education, our basic fundamental liberties, physical attacks from radical Islam and other enemies (ie. Red China), etc., etc. It all ultimately imminates from the same dark place..
That is a critical message to drive home. Without government indoctrination centers, children would again derive the bulk of their values from their parents. Leftism (”progressivism”) as a meme is parasitic. Remove the vector (indoctrination camps) and it will go extinct.
I issue a call for volunteers. All those who believe that there are too many human beings on the planet are encouraged to leave immediately, by whatever means suits your fancy.
For the people who don’t click on the full article:
The American Thinker’s Web site ran the numbers. In the seven years between the signing of Kyoto in 1997 and 2004, here’s what happened:
•Emissions worldwide increased 18.0 percent;
•Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1 percent;
•Emissions from nonsigners increased 10.0 percent; and
•Emissions from the United States increased 6.6 percent.
The entire Left way of thinking is ironic.
For example, people who cannot even balance THEIR OWN checkbook think they can boost an economy by redistributing wealth by soaking the rich (meaning everyone with a job) with taxes.
In a certain perverse way, I'm all in favor of this latest "progressive" fad.
It should effectively rid the world of enviro-wackoism in the course of one generation.
•Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1 percent;
•Emissions from nonsigners increased 10.0 percent; and
•Emissions from the United States increased 6.6 percent.
This just proves the point.
When in doubt, do the OPPOSITE of what a lefty think is the correct thing to do.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It's hard not to conclude a form of mental illness has gripped the world's elites. If you're one of that dwindling band of Westerners who'll be celebrating the birth of a child, "homeless" or otherwise, next week, make the most of it. A year or two on, and the eco-professors will propose banning Nativity scenes because they set a bad example.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The idea, it seems to me, is that because humanity was not good enough to make Marxxism work, then it has no right to exist at all.
Yesterday's left promoted the same belief.
Actually, it's not about the destruction of civilization, it's about the extinction of humanity.
Good for you! Conservatives need to keep breeding and producing great, productive children that will be the leaders of tomorrow. The left will become like the Shakers - eventually, there will be none of them left. (I know I'm being overly hopeful, but I'm an optimist.)
I hope you have many grandchildren & great-grandchildren!
This has happened before: the Albigensian madness in southern France in the 12th and 13th Century. This was a gnostic religious movement which held that the physical world was evil and created by Satan.
They said the worst crime was to “cruelly” trap another soul in flesh by bringing another child into the world. Their main commandment was to abstain from natural (procreative) intercourse.
Their leaders, called Cathari, were celibate and morbidly ascetical: they wouldn’t eat meat or burn a fire to keep warm (small carbon footprint?) -—and they condemned the Catholics who said it was morally OK to eat and drink and keep warm and marry and make love and have children.
The Albigensians told their followers that Christianity (Catholicism) was a lie and that they had no religious or moral obligations other than childlessness. It was OK for them to have non-procreativesex , so homosexuality and contraception were virtuous.
The Catholic Church was appalled by the rapid spread of this insane movement across southern France. After the failure of peaceful attempts at conversion, the Church was able to defeat them only by calling a Crusade.
What’s next with the New Albigensians? Watch and see.
If they want to take this to its logical conclusion, then they should KILL THEMSELVES! In an environmentally friendly way, of course.
I have been saying this for some time now. The dark forces of Lucifer AKA Satan AKA The Devil, are very much alive today. It is my humble opinion that this dark force was behind the beginnings of Islam. Mohammad was a prophet all right, a prophet of death and darkness! He was the devil's handmaiden.
Good for you! Remember that though the neo-Malthusians and neo-Ludites don’t procreate, they do recruit. They control the major sources of American children’s spiritual (de)formation: the TV, the Mall, and the Public School .
I pray every day on my knees: O Lord, protect my boys.
That form of evolution I can agree with.
They'll try. They'll go for imposing a $5,000 carbon tax on parents for every childbirth. They'll promote homosexuality in the schools (Gay-Straight Alliance in the middle and high schools) and in the media. The "Will and Grace" generation --- all our kids' peers --- think homosexuality is morally neutral, just a kind of natural diversity like right-and left-handedness.
And I'll bet 80% of FReepers have no objection to marital contraception. Heterosexual gays.
Perhaps in the manner of Timothy Treadwell, “recycling” themselves.
A child is a “vote” for the continuation of your values and your culture. Apparently, many in the West don’t believe those things are worth saving. They’ve made their choice and there’s little to be done about it.
I’m not so sure American conservatives are going to repopulate the West by themselves. Liberals often come from conservative families (think baby boomers) and today about 80% of Christian children abandon their religion, at least for a time (http://mondaymorninginsight.com/index.php/site/comments/88_of_evangelical_children_leave_the_church_after_high_school/). While this doesn’t mean they will adopt liberal values, there does seem to be a correlation between church membership and large families.
So, what’s the solution? I don’t know, but if the trend continues, Western culture’s days are numbered.
Moreover, I wouldn’t worry too much about the Muslims dancing on our graves. Their culture is all about force. The Koran teaches Muslims to solve their problems through violence – crush the infidel, dismember and kill criminals, punish the victims to prevent rape, etc. I give them fifty years tops before they blow the Shiite out of each other.
After that? I suppose God can try again with the rats and roaches.
Perhaps the folks who feel this way can ensure that they have a ‘negative carbon footprint’: make high tech funeral arrangments so their body will ‘sequester’ the carbon presently contained, and commit suicide.
Of course, I would rather see them repent of their folly, and embrace all of the Divine commandments from “be fruitful and multiply” to “be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect”, but in some cases I suspect the heart is too hardened for that.
Low liberal birthrates, the result of high numbers of liberal homosexuals combined with what James Taranto terms, “the Roe effect”, high liberal abortion rates, will sharply diminish the number of MoveOn Democrats in the decades ahead. We can only hope that conservatives will have large families so we can keep control of the country.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I agree with it all
Very true. Let them “extinct” themselves and leave the breeders alone
$5K fine per live born baby? Promotion of anal penetration for boys (and girls)?
Our church families just keep having more babies. It’s great! One family had 12 children, who have reproduced a good many times themselves. I love it! The more the merrier. Wish my kids would have more.
Gawd Noooooo !!!!!1
No you misunderstood. I agree with what YOU said in your reply to me.
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