Just days after U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned the environmental cost of having children on an Instagram Live Q&A, two women in the U.K. appeared on the Victoria Derbyshire show to share why they have gone on a “BirthStrike.”
Blythe Pepino, founder of BirthStrike, told the BBC broadcaster that she would not be having kids. She shared that she is “terrified” to bring a child into the world because of climate change.
Pepino said, “Our planet is in a kind of collapse. The natural world is collapsing around us, and that’s actually happening right now.”
“And I’m so disappointed by the response by authorities to this crisis, and so freaked out by everything I’ve read that I’ve — I’ve basically last year I came to the decision that I couldn’t bring a child into that.” she continued.
According to the video interview, Pepino also decided to ask her friends on Facebook if any of them felt the same way.
She said, “And I was asking around people I know, put it up a little bit on Facebook and realize actually quite a lot of other people are making this decision.”
She continued, “We realized it was really — really important to tell the public that there are people out there are so scared about this that they feel that they can’t actually have a family.”
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