Birth Strike
November 24, 2019
Birth strike is a worldwide movement of people who have decided not to procreate or have children due to climate change. One of the goals of birth strike is to foster a movement that would force the world to create awareness geared towards actions addressing the impending doom the is climate change. The people behind the Birth strike movement choose to not have children because they want to prevent their possible progeny from inheriting in a dead earth.
I think there are two scenarios that could possibly happen, first is the possibility that the progeny of the current generation surpasses the previous one, meaning they will be better-upgraded versions of the previous generation. The possibility that they are the “hope of the future”. They are capable of addressing and solving the problems that the previous generation created. The second possibility would be that the problem, that is climate change and the impending doom of this world, is so irreversibly unfixable that nothing can be done to solve it. This would result in a world unable to foster any lifeform.
Does supporting the movement birth strike solve the issue of climate change, global warming and the impending desolation of the world? People who support birth strike forgo having children, to lessen the carbon footprint contributing to the death of the planet. But the number of people supporting this movement is not enough to make a significant difference in the our already deteriorating planet. In order to address the issue, the emphasis must put be on main factors that contribute to the death of our planet, one of which is capitalism.
Birth strike may not be a solution, but it contributes leaps and bounds towards pushing the issue forward. People who are on birth strike believe that they are contributing towards the saving the planet. This unorthodox approach creates awareness and that is better than nothing. At then end of the end having children is an autonomous choice and it is up to the individual to believe whether your progeny will be “the children of the future” or they will be “the children with no future”.
















