US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Anti-natalist

[matt cardin]

Well, now.

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York suggested this weekend that it may not be ethical to have children, given the difficulties that climate change will likely cause in the years to come. In a live stream on her Instagram, Ocasio suggested to her 2.5 million followers that the answer was not clear. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Asks: Is Is Still OK to Have Kids in the Face of Climate Change? Newsweek, February 25, 2019

Jerry Dunleavy on Twitter:

(Note that my sharing of the video from the specific Twitter user represented above doesn't imply endorsement of his or anybody else's views. I was just using the best available source of the actual live stream segment.)

Here's a partial transcript of her comments:

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When it comes to climate in particular, we're actually screwed. There is a global threat to the planet. A global threat. Our planet is going to face disaster if we don’t turn this ship around. And so it’s basically like, there is a scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult, and it does lead young people to have a legitimate question: Is it okay to still have children? Not just financially, because people are graduating with twenty, thirty, one hundred thousand dollars of student loan debt, so they can’t even afford to have kids in the house, but there’s also just this basic moral question, like, what do we do?