Must we be a civilization embracing suicide?
Environmental alarmism is stealing hope and optimism and joy from an entire generation.
This from frontpagemag.com.
Climate hysteria to a degree that can be categorized as mental illness is part of the toxic “safetyism” infecting our culture.
Recently, a Left-wing tool of mass propaganda media, The Los Angeles Times, published an opinion piece that “wrestled with a question no one in history ever thought to ask themselves until our own time:”
Is it morally right to bring children
into a world so fraught with dangerous uncertainty?
“Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question“ is an excerpt from a new book by Jade S. Sasser, an associate professor in the—seriously—Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside. The book is called Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future.
Yes, climate anxiety is a thing. Psychotherapist Natacha Duke described it thusly:
Also known as ‘eco-anxiety,’ ‘eco-guilt’ and ‘eco-grief,’ climate anxiety is characterized by a chronic fear of environmental doom that’s often paralyzing and debilitating.
Fortunately, there still exists a sizable portion of the American population who recognize this all for what it truly is:
It is one of the most effective and widespread psyops of our time, having traumatized an entire couple of generations into believing that we must take immediate, radical action to completely dismantle the capitalist, systemically racist, heteronormative, fossil-fueled power structures and exploitative mentality that purportedly have driven us to the brink of planetary annihilation.
The Times excerpt centers on a series of interviews Sasser conducted in 2021 and 2022 with millennials and members of Generation Z:
[A]ll of them people of color. Some of them identify as queer… which shapes their sensitivity to discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.
All were college-educated, most having taken environmental studies classes. At least two of them have degrees in sustainability, whatever that means.
Sasser began, and it’s hard to argue with her:
American society feels more socially and politically polarized than ever.
She then asked:
Is it right to bring another person into that?
Among her interview subjects is Bobby, 22, whose degree in sustainability studies scored him a job in a restaurant where he is “unhappily employed.” He is open to adopting an already existing child but not having one of his own. “The environment is really the deciding factor for me,” he told Sasser.
The interviews of others can be read HERE. Suffice to say, a significant part of the damage done by this environmental hysteria:
[Is] cranked up in college classes and in our cultural messaging is this hopelessness, guilt, and anxiety it engenders in young people who have little real-world experience and who are especially susceptible to the gas-lighting of virtue-signaling celebrities and far-Left activists posing as educators.
Further confusing our younger generations is what is called ‘Safetyism,’ which is defined in Lukianoff and Haidt’s book The Coddling of the American Mind, as:
[T]he cult of safety—an obsession with eliminating threats (both real and imagined) to the point at which people become unwilling to make reasonable trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns.
Add to that an instilled guilt that we are hurtling toward an environmental doom which we believe we brought upon ourselves:
[A]nd the tragic result is the end of hope, the loss of an optimism that the future will be better for our children, and the self-loathing sense that the planet can only be saved if our destructive species commits suicide.
Yes, the world is fraught with danger of innumerable kinds—but it always has been. People have always been at the mercy of natural disasters and harsh weather conditions, not to mention disease, famine, conquering armies, and just plain poverty, which was the dominant condition for humankind for all of history until our own time. Thanks to technological and medical advances, as well as civilizational stability in the West, there has never been a safer time in history to have children than today.
Contrary to what the radical progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Greta Thunberg say, we have more than ten years left. We the People must not allow their mental illness to become our personal tragedy. The world—America included—is suffering an unprecedented drop in the birth rate, but this can and will be turned around. People who do not want children should not have them, but I believe they will live to regret their decision.
As the saying goes:
Having children is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
And what better way to make the world a better place, to help fight the insanity of Evo-Alarmism and Climate Hysteria in the long run than to give birth to the next generation and raise it to be and to do better than ours.
Final thoughts: I believe the Evo-Alarmism and Safetyism are elements of the programmed demise of American culture. I also believe We the People must ignore them as well as identify the source as the effort to turn the world into a globalist society and more immediately the results of the fake birth certificate from Hawaii and the fundamental transformation of America that Conservatism will stop.
