Prof Thinks Climate Change is Making People of Color Feel Ashamed to Have Kids
“I think I may not have children although I do want them”
If you don’t want to have kids, that’s fine, but who allows their decisions on this to be guided over climate change?
The College Fix reports:
Climate change making people of color feel ashamed to have kids: professor
Fears about climate change are prompting feelings of “shame” and selfishness among “people of color” when they think about having children, a University of California at Riverside professor wrote in her new book.
Several young adults shared these fears with Jade Sasser, (pictured) a professor of gender and sexuality studies, in an excerpt published Wednesday at the Los Angeles Times. The book is “Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question” from the University of California Press.
“So … it almost feels, like, kind of shameful to want to have children,” a young Native American woman named Melanie said.
“I think I may not have children although I do want them,” she told Sasser. “Just because, with all of the things we see going on in the world, it seems unfair to bring someone into all of this against their will.”
Another young adult, Victoria, said she would love to have a big family like the one she grew up in, but her college education made her rethink that desire.
“I got a degree in sustainability, and I’ve always questioned bringing people into an environment [where] so much is going on politically, socially, health-wise …” she told Sasser.
Now, Victoria said she is considering becoming a foster parent instead, saying, “It’s a little selfish on my end to think I’m going to have all these kids when there are already kids in the world who would probably make me a better parent.”
In the book, Sasser wrote it makes sense “that groups of color are more concerned and alarmed about climate change,” because they are the ones most harmed by air pollution, food deserts, oil pipelines and refineries, and other environmental problems.
“Eco-anxiety” and childbearing have become “hot topics,” especially as birth rates continue to fall, Sasser wrote.
But, according to her book, too little attention is being paid to people of color – “those who are most deeply impacted – either through exclusion or through assuming that young, middle-class white people’s experiences are shared by all. They are not.”
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” Jade Sasser, (pictured) a professor of gender and sexuality studies…”
That explains her pool for surveys and samples.
My observation is that it’s whites who are foregoing starting or growing a family. Whether this is out of climate guilt, overpopulation guilt, or the tax burden they face supporting the bastard children of certain demographics disproportionately on welfare remains a question.
said no poc ever
these “victims” have more power than 90+% of allll middle class whites
Nope. This is much more likely to get the whitey soys up in their feels.
“Just because, with all of the things we see going on in the world, it seems unfair to bring someone into all of this against their will.”
Killing them against their will, however, is AOK.
“groups of color are more concerned and alarmed about climate change,” because they are the ones most harmed by air pollution, food deserts, oil pipelines and refineries, and other environmental problems.”
“Well, it’s like in the Army, you know? The great prince issues commands, founds states, vests families with fiefs — Inferior people should not be employed.”
Reading these two statements side by side, over and over, I still think the Firesign Theatre quote makes more sense.
This can only be projection based on the self reinforcing hysteria of liberal elites. The article was based on anecdotal stories (all subject to confirmation bias), The conclusion, as far as I can tell, was not based on a statistically valid survey.
Latinos and Asians are both more concerned as a group than Blacks although all 3 are more concerned than Whites.
This is not the only link confirming it.
https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/race-ethnicity-and-american-views-climate-change
Also, all of the groups have the economy higher on their priority list than climate change.
https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/race-and-climate-change/
What the hell is a “degree in sustainability”? Couple that with “gender and sexuality studies” and you end up with a real cluster-f**k. And to think that people will pay as much as $200k for one of these degrees… and then wonder why they can’t pay off the debt. We are doomed.
Want to earn a good living and have a good life? Learn to weld. Or something else that people will pay for.