Links tagged “kids”

WaPo: Sanghani-Jorgensen is not alone. She joins a generation of people living in the U.S. and other rich countries preoccupied with how having children may worsen the world’s rapid warming. ... According to a 2021 Pew Research Center survey of childless adults, 5 percent of those who cited a specific reason for not having children said it was because of “climate change/the environment.” ...

A 2017 literature review by two sustainability scientists, who calculated that opting out of having a child would reduce emissions by approximately 60 metric tons per year, an amount that positively dwarfed the other possible actions (living car free: 2.4 tons of emissions avoided; skipping one transatlantic flight: 1.6 tons). ... 

Many people, perhaps, would choose not to have children if they knew with certainty that extinction-level warming were right around the corner. On the flip side, more people might choose to have children if they knew with certainty that countries would rally to end greenhouse gas emissions and create a more sustainable society.

Marc Morano, author of 'The Green Fraud,' calls out Democrats' green energy 'scam' and exploitation of African children on 'Jesse Watters Primetime.'

Fox News Channel - Broadcast November 25, 2022 - Jesse Watters Primetime - w/ Rachel Campos-Duffy - Marc Morano: US is 'empowering China' with the green energy agenda

Morano: "You can rename the UN climate summit the China empowerment summit. All it’s going to do is make the once energy-dominant West more reliant on China for all this rare earth mining and with lower environmental standards and this is the most important aspect, Rachel, lower human rights standards. Whether you are talking about the Uyghurs in China or particularly in relation to your opening, kids as young as 8, and 9 years old in the coming go mining cobalt. Now, this has been reported over the years, years ago by CBS News, by CNN, so, the mainstream media is aware of it."

Sophia Kianni, the self-proclaimed “Gen Z Climate Activist” was a hit at COP27, the climate change conference where hundreds of important people fly their private jets to scold the rest of us about the environment. As she noted on Twitter, “You can be an advisor to the head of the United Nations and still wear a cute outfit!”

Climate Depot's Morano comment: "Wow. Greta who? After Greta declined to attend COP 27 and called the UN climate summit a "scam" full of "greenwashing" and "lying", the UN tossed her aside quicker than a private jet commute. The replacement Greta, known as Sophia, met with the UN Sec. Gen, conducted a meeting with Biden's climate envoy John Kerry and gave a keynote speech to the UN COP 27 in Egypt. How dare they!"

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Greta claims we must overthrow "the whole capitalist system," which she says is responsible for "imperialism, oppression, genocide... racist, oppressive extractionism." There is no “back to normal,” she said.

Michael Shellenberger: "Greta's claims are absurd. The "whole capitalist system" has, over the last 200 years, allowed for the average life expectancy of humans to rise from 30 to 70 years of age. The "whole capitalist system" produces larger food surpluses than any other system in human history. And the "whole capitalist system" has resulted in declining greenhouse gas emissions in developed nations over the last 50 years. ... But capitalism is plainly better than any other system of economic organization yet devised. High levels of inequality are the result of more rich people, not more poor people, who are much better off under capitalism than feudalism or communism. The business cycle of booms and busts provokes manias and depressions, but it is much more efficient, and less oppressive than governments deciding what should be produced, by whom, and at what price. ... Capitalism is far better for the natural environment than feudalism or communism. Under feudalism, subsistence farmers rely on wood and dung for cooking fuels and must farm large tracts of land to produce a small amount of food. The industrial revolution not only liberated most people from back-breaking farming but also reduced the amount of land required, thanks to fertilizer, irrigation, and tractors. ... 

Left-wing parties, from communist to socialist to social democratic parties, used to be the parties of the working class. Now, across the Western world, they are the parties of educated elites." 

Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: I encourage you to read the @JustStop_Oil manifesto. It's a sad statement of what we experts have done to young people. It is chock full of hyperbole from authoritative figures, references to work of the "planetary boundaries" folks & RCP8.5 studies.

The below from their preamble:

Also happening in Australia: Great Food Reset: Watch: School kids munch on insects as cricket snacks introduced to 1000 schools to ‘help save the planet from global warming’

The lawsuit against the state of Montana was filed by 16 children who ranged in ages of two to 18 when it was filed in March 2020

The youngsters argue that Montana's continuous use of fossil fuels has contributed to the climate crisis

The children are not looking for a lump sum of money, but, if the court rules in their favor, the group wants defendants to 'bring the state energy system into constitutional compliance,’ the March 2020 filing states.

The file includes stories about each plaintiff that describes how the climate crisis has impacted them personally 

The youngest of the group, Nathaniel, was two at the time of the filing - he is now four years old. Nathaniel has respiratory issues that cause him frequent illnesses and the document claims the climate crisis is increasing the length and severity of Montana’s wildfire season which poses a threat on the young boy’s health.

The trial will take place on June 12, 2023 and conclude on June 23