An environmental lobbyist told viewers of British News channel GB News Tuesday that having children presents a “moral issue” because of the amount of carbon they will produce over the course of their lifetime.
Donnachadh McCarthy argued that people should have fewer children, and that having only one child is “great”.
McCarthy, an advocate of alarmist groups like Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion, told the news station “When my dad was born there were 1.6 billion people on the planet. When I was born there were 3 billion. Now there are 8 billion and we are heading towards eleven.”
“Women are working now and looking for a quality of life and they don’t want to spend their lives pregnant,” he continued.
“We’ve destroyed 70 per cent of nature. There’s a moral issue here,” McCarthy further proclaimed, adding “How can we pass that on to the next generation? Every child in an industrial country like ours has around 505 hundred tonnes of carbon over their lifetime.”
“That’s equivalent to 1000 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.”
Parenting coach and mother of two Nicole Ratcliff took issue with the rhetoric, telling McCarthy “I’ll be honest, I feel quite angry by that kind of language. I am one of four. I’m sorry, We’ve got a lovely family and the idea of that three is selfish is shocking.”
Ratcliff argued that people who don’t have children tend to have more disposable income and freedom, so they travel more and have a deeper carbon footprint.
She continued, “I think that it is absolutely awful, 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.”
“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,” Ratcliff added.
“There are people out there spending every single penny that they have got to have a child and if they are made to feel guilty, I feel quite offended by the idea that bringing a much loved child into the world would be a bad thing to do,” Ratcliff further urged.
McCarthy responded that he wants to see the birth rate fall naturally, and is “not advocating compulsory family planning.”
Here is the full segment:
All of this is absolutely insane when you factor in the stark reality that fertility rates globally are collapsing and almost every country is on course to have shrinking populations by the end of the century.
In countries like South Korea and Japan, there are twice as many people are dying as there are being born. You don’t have to be a mathematic genius to do the calculations on what’s going to happen very soon.
The figures have prompted influential figures like Elon Musk to warn that humanity is literally going to disappear if something is not done to reverse the trend.
The current UK fertility rate is 1.6, significantly below the “replacement rate” of 2.1, and it continues to fall. So no, having two children is not “plenty” and having three is not “selfish”, despite what eco-lunatics like Donnachadh McCarthy are baselessly claiming.
Despite this horrifying reality, it is now commonplace in modern culture for young people to genuinely believe they need to abandon their human instincts to reproduce, all for the greater good:
As we’ve previously highlighted, Extinction Rebellion co-founder Stuart Basden admitted that the group’s agenda “isn’t about the climate” and is instead about toppling western civilization, right down to ending the notion that heterosexuality is “normal.”
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Since he is SO worried about ‘carbon’ creation/use, McCarthy should kill himself immediately to lessen his ‘impact’ on the Earth.
Families have been getting smaller and smaller since the industrial revolution. Farm families needed to be large as they needed many hands to make the farm work. Urban families could make due with fewer hands and so the family began to shrink. When there is less need for labor, there is less need for laborers.
Computers and robots replacing workers means fewer laborers are needed which will result is smaller families until there is a net loss in replacement numbers which is as it should be. As the native population shrinks, it doesn’t need to be replenished, for doing so creates surplus labor aka welfare recipients.
So having less children is somehow the same thing as hating humanity? I don’t know how to break the news to you, but people used to have a lot more children, so we must have started “hating humanity” around the 18th century.
Seriously, like Malthus and everyone who is in favour of family planning have explained, having less children is in fact what you do if you understand that we live in a round, finite planet and you want all people to be happier by each having bigger portions of this finite planet, and never starving.
Our countries are dying due to falling fertility rates, you forget people are mortal and the death rate is exceeding the birth rate in western countries so I hope you like living under Muslim rule, because they are going into the future not us.
The women of today are a bunch of fucking whores, they prioritize their looks and fucking numerous amounts of men instead of settling the fuck down and acting like real women do.
Wtf does it take to get them to make a man a sandwich.
Humans have the ability to resist their animal instinct to breed like rabbits by virtue of their ability to reason. Reason dictates that all animals have a “carrying capacity” in the environment and if they exceed that, bad things happen. People like you have agendas that you push forward with lies, half truths and emotional stirring BS. You don’t care for what is true only what furthers your cause. Maybe you would be happier living in India where you could be elbow to elbow with billions of your breeding compatriots?
How about all the illegal immigrants get deported out of europe and white women start breeding instead of acting like drug addicted whores on the 9 to 5 slave wheel of feminism.
If there are too many children born in Britain already why the immigration? And why aren’t countries with the highest fertility rates ie. Africa, told to stop breeding? Your claims are as ridiculous as that effeminate in the video.
Someone please kick this guy in the face.
That picture he drew (my child could do better btw) is all the evidence of what he is saying and what eamon should have asked him is where is his evidence. We actually have a c02 deficit.
Lead by example so your kind will die out.