The Mail has published an article by a businesswoman in her 30s who has vowed not to start a family. She has even persuaded her husband to have a vasectomy after doctors refused to sterilise her. Such decisions are anyone’s free choice, and for any reason they wish, but in this case the claimed reason turns out to be climate change:
For how can I bring an innocent warm bundle into the world when none of us can say that the world will even be habitable for them? In the past few weeks, two new sets of statistics have emerged – the first to widespread hand-wringing; the second to barely a whimper.
The first showed that the U.K. birth rate has fallen to its lowest level since records began. Between 2022 and 2023, the fertility rate for England and Wales decreased from an average of 1.49 children per woman to 1.44 –the lowest rate on record and far fewer than are needed to sustain an ageing population.
And the second set of stats? Those were the ones telling us that 2024 is “virtually certain” to be the hottest year on record, according to the European Climate Service.
A year punctuated by deadly heatwaves and catastrophic storms will end up 1.5°C hotter than pre-industrial levels, and for the first time breach the symbolic point beyond which we stop being able to avoid the most disastrous consequences of climate change – a series of knock-on effects which could see the widespread extinction of animal species and even wipe us out.
For me these two statistics are not unrelated. Raising a human being in today’s world is hard. As reasons not to do it, women cite childcare costs, the hit they’ll take to their career and the difficulty in finding a decent man to have a baby with. As a happily married businesswoman with her own sales company, those reasons don’t apply to me.
She doesn’t pull her punches:
I won’t have a child because of the threat posed by climate change.
Those world leaders who gathered in Azerbaijan for the COP29 climate conference last week should know that women like me aren’t having babies because we are too worried that adding to the global population will simply hasten its demise.
Whenever anyone asks me about my childlessness, I tell them the truth and make no apologies for sounding curt. “Why bring children into a world when we don’t know if it’s going to exist in 100 years?”
The most common answer to this always astounds me: “Oh well, it doesn’t matter to me because I won’t be here then!” It’s such a selfish attitude.
Why have children to fulfil a biological need then not care that the world they will inhabit looks increasingly likely to resemble some post-apocalyptic wasteland? The seas barren, the skies raging, the deserts spreading and no way to turn back this ecological disaster.
I have long been terrified of what the future holds. From the age of six I had recurring nightmares in which I’d find myself being pulled through a hole in the sky, my little body shooting up into space.
It seems she’s not alone:
I am just one woman but my decision is not an especially rare one. One U.S. poll found a quarter of adults without children say climate change is part of the reason – while, in 2021, analysis by a global bank found the decision “to not have children owing to fears over climate change is growing and impacting fertility rates quicker than any preceding trend in the field of fertility decline”.
The U.K.-based BirthStrike Movement comprises women who refuse to procreate “to spare [their] child from a dystopian existence”.
Dismissing any arguments for having children as “selfish” (presumably having children in the pre-modern era when they faced the prospect of high infant mortality, disease, disaster and revolution was unconscionably selfish too, and perhaps more so), she takes care to let the Mail’s readers know how she’s doing her bit to stop Britain turning into a boiling and barren desert:
I’m careful to buy my godchildren sustainable gifts, from local businesses in North Yorkshire where I live. I try to do things with my godchildren that teach them to value the beauty in nature, like long walks and collecting shells at the beach. I grow my own veg and I support local producers whenever I can.
Every day I try to do something to help. I use a lower temperature on my washing machine, drive an electric car and scrupulously recycle. I use Vinted instead of buying new clothes and I have a rescue dog. My entire business is digital: we avoid printing anything and send all documents and contracts digitally. I use public transport to travel to business events.
In a curious twist, she’s worried about the impact of making a decision like hers on her own old-age care:
In fact, who will look after my generation as a whole if there aren’t enough young people to pay for pensions and the NHS?
Economists say the plummeting birth rate spells serious trouble for supposedly selfish women like me, whose fault it is.
But if falling birth rates are worrying political leaders, perhaps they should do something to address it by ramping up our response to climate change.
It’s not the job of younger people solely to fund the elderly (I’ve worked from the age of 16 and take full responsibility for my retirement income) but in any case, whether the state pension keeps pace with inflation may well be the least of our concerns when Norfolk and the Thames estuary are under water and wildfires are raging across our national parks.
The argument seems to be that if governments fall over themselves to devote their every waking minute to preventing climate change, then women like her might have children after all. Perhaps. Or perhaps there’s a subtext. Who knows?
The article is a fascinating insight into the psychological effects of state-sponsored fearmongering, resulting in potentially the greatest catastrophe of all: a culture of total negativity. One wonders why she bothers to go to work, which incidentally appears to be about helping other companies sell more stuff.
Worth reading in full if only to see just how nihilistic the culture of climate change has become.
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“My entire business is digital”
Yeah ducky, the Internet is powered by Unicorn Farts, the information is stored in tree rings, processed by bees and transmitted by carrier pigeon. God give me strength these people are so full of crap (and of themselves). AI! Pah!
One virus attack away from the possibility of losing your entire business… sounds risky to me
Maybe she uses a safe and effective vaccine
Properly screwed then!
Well, if imbeciles like her are not reproducing it’s probably a good thing.
Yes IQ goes up.
No excuse for the husband though. What a limpwrist-tosser he must be.
Firing blanks now, if he fires at all.
Oh for goodness’ sake – she’s saying she doesn’t want children because the world might not be here in 100 years? People have had babies through real, yes, REAL problems – war is one! – for thousands of years. ‘Virtue signalling’ reaches its zenith here. She’s decided she doesn’t want children. I get that. It’s interesting the things she thinks are going to happen – Norfolk under water etc… if she wants something real to worry about, I’d offer nuclear war. To me that’s a darn sight more likely to happen than the imminent end of the world via climate change. Nuclear war is a significant worry – and it was for my generation when we had babies. There’ll always be something to worry about in life. It’s not a reason not to have babies. Not wanting to have a baby is a good reason not to have a baby. That’s the only reason people need – most people will respect that!
Wasn’t it a statistical fact difficult and challenging times,
involving death, actually cause people to have more children? Linked to some ancient ‘must keep the species going’ driver before some of us learnt to think too much…
“For how can I bring an innocent warm bundle into the world when none of us can say that the world will even be habitable for them?” If her neurosis is just down to global warming I could say for some certainty that it will be fine. But it could much sooner be a smokin ruin if Starmer, the US democrats etc directed by the globalists overcook things in their desperation to keep the Ukraine tragedy going
Just what I was thinking, you stole my nuclear thunder!
Oh, and I’m just waiting to read that this month has been the hottest November on record
with record low winds, and record dryness.
Maybe it’ll just be that we had the warmest Guy Fawkes on record as measured at a quite reliable site that just so happens to be next to a bonfire on many fifths of November.
Hottest, wettest, coldest, driest, windiest, calmest on record because all weather is climate change.
Great outcome, proper science [Darwin] in action…
I thought the same, however I think your point would be wasted on this person!
I’m not a psychiatrist, but…….
….she’s f***ing barking!
It certainly shows how effective the propaganda is. When I read stories like this I always think to myself that they couldn’t want kids that much or have much in the way of a maternal/paternal instinct in the first place because that would surely override this fairy tale nonsense. So actually, I think people like this ( I’m looking at you, Thunberg! ) not having kids is no bad thing, because imagine the life that kid might end up having.
A quick check on Tik Tok or Twitter will show you the state of play with kids who have woketard parents and are fully onboard with the trans agenda. Little boys being brought up as girls, puberty blockers, attending drag queen shows, teenage girls whose parents are supportive of them ‘transing’ into boys, scar tissue proudly on display from their hospital beds, post-mastectomy. It goes on and on. How many parents rocked up to give their babies Covid jabs, and how many are still doing it?
I think once you’re captured by any of the agendas/cults it’s actually a good thing if you don’t reproduce and any kids you might have had have definitely dodged a bullet because God help children born into these households. There’s some seriously bad parents and parenting around doing various degrees of damage both psychologically and physically.
Also, if she ”made her husband get the snip” then he’s equally as dippy as her because unless she was holding a gun to his head then it sounds like he also isn’t particularly struck on being a father. Let kids be born to parents that actually want them AND are capable of giving them a healthy, well-balanced and loving upbringing, I say.
It’s the collective death-wish that has our civilisation in its grip.
I agree.
In fact, if I was Satan, one of my strategies would be to keep whispering into people’s ears: ”Despair, give up, it’s all hopeless! There is no future. It’s all pointless anyway. Your existence is pointless and meaningless!”
(I’m not Satan, btw… And I have children.)
I hope you named one of them Major Major Major Major.
“the skies raging, the deserts spreading”….The deserts are greening actually.
An area the size of tte USA, crop yields surging. But gotta kill it all off and let people starve to save the Planet.
“impacting fertility rates quicker than any preceding trend in the field of fertility decline”.
Or any Covid shot?
Her husband has no balls.
He self identifies as a hermaphrodite.
I doubt that many people have climate change as their main reason for not having children. For most there are far more pressing concerns. They will never own a house, their children will either own nothing and be happy or be dead; they would be forever anxious about how to save them from such a toxic culture. It is meant to be like this so that certain sections of the human race kill themselves. And their replacements will be following suit shortly afterwards.
I actually call this out as virtue-signalling bollocks and she ( and presumably her huz ) never seriously wanted kids anyway. I get the impression it’s all ”Look at me, sacrificing my reproductive years for a good cause!” It’s just an excuse to broadcast the fact you’re a sanctimonious, captured, BBC-watching idiot.
Yes probably because you can make such a decision on this basis if you like but you don’t have to tell everyone about it. Petulant spoilt child behaviour I expect as you say.
Like the church before, it seems there are always those who will flaggelate themselves, and die for the faith, or in this case, intentionally never create life.
Well that darwinism in action. For some reason more just take their place though?
Well, her chap’s just won a Darwin Award.
Better yet – she can change her mind. He can’t.
He can, which I am living proof of..! Reversals are a simple process, although you can’t easily get them on the NHS. I had mine done while the private hospital had a ‘special offer’ on for reversals. That was lucky for me, wasn’t it…!
Fair point. However, I know someone who had 3 attempts at a reversal none of which worked. Not my idea of a good time.
In the meantime he can screw around with safety so he might be smarter than he seems.
Clearly she’s relying on the capitalist system not collapsing before her death.
She doesn’t want kids. That’s ok. The rest about climate change is a crock. Pic in the paper job done.
People are so naive not just in England but all over but especially in England. Over a hundred years of a scientifically-crafted propaganda have worked their spell. You could argue that it is a wonder that there is any dissent or free thought left at all. The fact that there is some is good news – it tells you that good things are more indomitable than they appear to be.
Climate catastrophism is PROVABLY* a secular religion.
With Net Zero its ‘salvation’ story.
And albeit for a small minority of the most ardent believers, what this article describes is exactly to be expected from worshipping climate doom!
But the impact on policy is far worse; catastrophism measurably dominates global public attitudes and policy.
Endorsed by profs Frank Furedi and Judith Curry, my book includes a formal proof that climate catastrophism is a cultural entity, a secular religion that defies ALL climate science, even the MAINSTREAM/IPCC.
Follow the link in my profile; paperback and free PDF.
Also includes measurements of public attitudes and policy (e.g. commitment to renewables across nations) as per above.
Interesting—–I have been investigating this climate/energy stuff since about 2007. I have read over 200 books like eg “Hubris” Michael Hart——-. “Taken by Storm” Ross McKitrick and Christopher Essex.—— “The Climate Scam” and “Green Energy Suicide” by Allan Macrae.——“Climate Cult” by Brian Sussman.—–“Climate Alarmism” by John G Dawson.———-“Watermelons” by James Delingpole.——–and I could fill this whole page. —-I will have a look at yours in your link —cheers.
If you look at the end of empires you will usually see certain phenomena that can be described as crisis cults. They attempt to position the grand crisis within a small area because the alternative is too terrifying to consider, a scapegoat or point ot focus There are more sober approaches. When Greece was on its way out they came up with philosophies to cope with the end-times such as Stoicism, Epicureanism. Pyrrhonnism. These all attempted to manage the pain of the dreadful situation. We should acknowledge that the end of a civilisation is painful for everyone.
During the 1960s I’m sure there was a greater risk of nuclear war than there is even today. I’m pretty glad my parent’s generation didn’t give up reproduction as a result of this perceived risk.
And once you start having to justify your own existence by saying things like ‘my dog is a rescue dog’, the logic of your position is surely compromised. Yes it’s only a rescue dog, but it’s ‘carbon footprint’ is probably greater than that of many of the poorest people on the planet – get a hamster! You’ve got a hamster – all that waste bedding decomposing, releasing CO2 – get rid of it at once…where do you stop?
The dog has to go! Shoot it now!
Look what they did to peanut the squirrel!
There is a sense beyond just historical knowledge. A small example would be the decline in insect numbers. A few years ago it used piss me off if a fly or moth entered my house and there were lots of both in summer. The same if you drove at night and sometimes in the daytime. Now I can levbe the windows open and maybe occasionally a half-dead fly comes in and dies shortly afterwards. It is a sense in the air. There was a time when town centres were full of courting couples. Slowly it went and largely unnoticed. At the end it is like this. You have to feel the tenor of the time or at least keep your eyes open. Of course this should never deter you from reproducing but you do have to listen to the signs.
Oh dear, there’s no cure for stupid, and it looks like her husband is just as stupid. At least they’re saving us from stupid squared by not passing their stupidity on through their genes. However, when the climate scam blows over, she may still be young enough to procreate but it’ll be a little more difficult for him.
It is hard to inject life force into this age. I am sure that many young men have ejaculated tonight and I am equally sure that the life force was limited in every case, whether they knew it or not. Perhaps the best motif for survival and possible redemption is the shielding of a flickering flame. Whole familes and communities can do that and it will always be done in a spirit of humility and quietness.
Since when have we been knowing what will and won’t exist in 100 years? People who are presently older than about 10 will certainly never know and most of those in the 0 – 10 age range won’t, either. Likewise, since when has I don’t care what’s going to happen after my death become an expression of selfishness? No matter how much you care now, Ms Lorimer, that’s not going to help anyone in the slightest because you are not going to be around in order to do something about it.
Paying attention to the ‘philosophy’ of totally stupid people is bad for your mental health. It’s probably not exactly great for the planet, either, because stupid people tend to do stupid things and these usually don’t improve anything.
Have to say that did make me laugh. With a name like yours too!
Just to say – the comment that made me laugh has been deleted.
That’s a pity. I liked it as well and it certainly seemed harmless enough.
She should have had the courage of her convictions and got her fallopian tubes tied.
Why force this on her partner?
She can now change her mind and procreate with another man.
He, to put it politely, is f****d.
What if she dies in a car crash next week or dies of turbo cancer in 6 months? What about her husbands future? What about her husbands choice? 30 something is not to late or old to have a change of heart
She needs help. Bet she’s been vaxxed 6 times and wears a mask in bed and practices social distancing as performance art.. Can’t be too careful these days you know
We need help if people like her are supposed to guide our decision.
Oh dear, she has a dog, and relies on electronic document transfers. Is she not concerned about the methane emissions from the dog and the production and transport of its food? Or the environmental impact of huge computer data centres and the energy required to operate them?
It could be argued that having a dog is more selfish than having a child, which will grow up to put something back into society.
Green zealotry has so little to do with logical and critical thought.
“It’s not the job of younger people solely to fund the elderly (I’ve worked from the age of 16 and take full responsibility for my retirement income)”
Thing is: if there are no people working, then your money in your retirement account will become worthless. Your cash is a claim on the future labour available in the country. If the labour is quite scarce then there will be loads of inflation in services rendering your pension less valuable in real terms when using it to purchase care.
Indeed, she hasn’t thought this through properly.
That’s an important point: People who are not part of the value creation process are a net drag on society as they consume things but don’t produce any. In this respect, there’s absolutely no difference between Ms-Lorimer-in-retirement, someone who has always lived from his inherited fortune and someone who gets JSA. Or rather, the difference is mainly the last person is a lot cheaper and will possibly work again in future.
An argument can obviously be made (and I’d support this position) that enabling people to have some sort of decent retirement after a lifetime of work is the decent and right thing to do. But Ms-I’ll-be-fine-and-state-pensioners-are-much-less-important-than-Climate-Change!! should perhaps be classed as having voluntarily opted out of decency. So, upon retirement, confiscate all of her property to do something against climate change!, make her live off welfare and make sure she understands that she’s been leniently dealt with, considering that she keeps emitting CO₂ for absolutely no purpose.
I’d suggest its a good thing she doesn’t have children, she is far too shallow and narcissistic, as for her husband, well whose choice was it really?, as for “climate change”, she clearly isn’t as intelligent as she thinks, if she believes that garbage, still got her few minutes of fame, and no doubt publicity for her “company”.
This woman is probably not alone in her irrational fear. But it is purely because of endless brainwashing about climate by government and Consolidated media. When you scare and misinform there will be various different ways that ordinary people will process that. Some will accept it but not worry to much, others might not accept it but not care too much, but some will accept every bit of it as ultimate truth and once you accept the world might end then it shouldn’t be a big surprise that you behave irrationally.
Well, I suppose one upside is that such a stupid person won’t passing her stupid genes to an unsuspecting new generation.
NUT JOB
I feel strongly that this is about the 3 ‘M’s.
Me, me, me….
Sounds to me like this poor woman is awash with neuroses. She needs therapy.
A therapy magnet!
I would rather feel for the husband if she changes her mind (as young women are wont to do).
I did mention this further up this post
Making silly decisions at a young age is a fools game but we only realise this when we ain’t young anymore!
Darwin award candidates.
To paraphrase Captain Mainwaring “Stupid woman”!
The more of these Eco Nutters who refuse to procreate, the better for the rest of us.
Another attention seeking, for stamping moron. Why would anyone share such a personal decision with the world? Why didn’t her husband leave her?
Because he’s the typical emasculated modern-day manlet. When faced with the stark alternatives of getting sterilized or no more sex with this woman in future, the choice was obvious.
Narcism is epidemic. Some will go to any extreme length to prove they are so much better than the remaining herd. Insane is another word that describes this type of extreme behavior.
Nutcase.