This past weekend, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd added another column to the myriad irrational and hysterical pieces about the “existential threat” climate change allegedly poses to human life.
As I do after almost every piece I read on the internet, I read comments submitted by readers.
One provided me with an epiphany.
It was a comment submitted by New York Times reader “Sophia” of Bangor, Maine:
“I have one child, a daughter, who told me age 8 that she would never have a child because of global warming. She’s now 34 and has never changed her mind. So I will not experience a grandchild. For her wisdom, I am grateful. I would be heartsick if I did have a grandchild who would have to experience the onslaught of changing climate.”
It is hard to imagine greater proof than that comment of the power of mass media and of the left. That a normal woman would celebrate her daughter’s choice not to be a mother and not to make her a grandmother can only be described as deranged. No normal-thinking human being would think that way. Jews had children during the Holocaust and made sure to have children if they survived the Holocaust.
Does this deranged woman know how few people are dying due to weather-related incidents in the era of global warming?
Danish statistician and economist Bjorn Lomborg noted this past week:
“Over the past hundred years, annual climate-related deaths have declined by more than 96%. In the 1920s, the death count from climate-related disasters was 485,000 on average every year. In the last full decade, 2010-2019, the average was 18,362 dead per year, or 96.2% lower.
“In the first year of the new decade, 2020, the number of dead was even lower at 14,893 — 97% lower than the 1920s average …
“The preliminary estimate of 2021 climate-related deaths (is) 5,569 or 98.9% lower than the 1920s …
“The newest Lancet study of heat and cold deaths show(s) that cold ‘vastly’ outweigh heat, and that climate actually has dramatically lowered (the number of) total death(s) … ”
Of course, none of that matters to Sophia — because she relies on The New York Times (and probably NPR and CNN) for her understanding of the world.
For more proof of how deranged many New York Times readers — and Washington Post readers, CNN viewers and NPR listeners — are because they rely on these sources for what they believe about the world, here are some replies to Sophia’s comment from other New York Times readers:
B. Rothman, New York City: “I completely agree. I have 6 grandchildren and weep inside for the calamitous life that is ahead for them.”
Ida Martinac, Berkeley, California: “I weep with you, Sophia. Whenever I look my 11 year old daughter in the eyes I feel so many emotions: guilt for bringing her into this dying world.”
Liberal, Texas: “I feel your pain. I have 2 sons. Neither one will have children and their partners agree. I’ll never have grandchildren. But I also realize that their decisions have in some way been molded by me. I am proud of their decision.”
Liz, Portland: “Frankly, as someone who has been concerned about climate change, and observing what is happening over the last ten years with real dread, I do not understand why anyone in the last ten years would voluntarily have a child.”
CC, Sonoma, California: “My only daughter shares your daughter’s feelings. I will have no grandchildren. As I watch my peers enjoying their final years surrounded by grandchildren, I can’t help feeling a little jealous. At the same time … our daughters are stepping up to the challenge. I’m proud of them.”
Marisa Leaf, Brooklyn, New York: “I, too, am coming to terms and accepting that my 36 year old son will not have a child as well — for stated reasons. It is painful for me when I watch other young men and women his age going about town with their children. But I understand, and concur, on an intellectual level, that of course they’re right. Bringing more children into the world these days is an existential worry. And irresponsible. So, as I grieve for our planet, I also grieve for the grandchildren that I will never have.”
What do all these deranged reactions have in common? How could so many people living in the healthiest, wealthiest society in human history welcome not having grandchildren?
The answer is they have been brainwashed by the media (and college). They have read and heard nothing — absolutely nothing — by scientists and scholars (such as Steve Koonin of NYU, Richard Lindzen of MIT or William Happer of Princeton, to name just three) who have studied climate change and found the hysteria morally as well as scientifically indefensible. It is not possible to live a life insulated from left-wing ideas. But it is extraordinarily easy to lead a life insulated from all non-left-wing ideas.
So, then, the epiphany I had was this: A majority of people will believe anything the mass media tell them. This is especially true of those who received a college education. Colleges teach students not to question, not think for themselves and not to think rationally.
That is why many people believe the world is coming to an end; it is good not to have children or grandchildren; men give birth; Russia colluded with the Trump campaign; Israel is an apartheid state; all-black dormitories on college campuses are progressive; there should be fewer police; it is fair to women to allow biological men to compete in women’s sports; and myriad other absurdities.
There is no other explanation for these deluded readers of The New York Times.
However, I do agree with them on one point. I, too, support their children’s decisions not to have children. The world doesn’t need more fools.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is “The Rational Bible,” a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, “No Safe Spaces,” was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
Plain and simple, liberals are an “existential threat” to civilized society. So New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, you and your followers are an “existential threat” to the “climate” of our civilized society. In other words, you are a liberal.
IF these ‘women’ (they certainly are not Ladies), really hated the world that much, that they feel its wrong to bring kids into it, fine.. ALL OF THEM SHOULD GET SNIPPED so they can’t ever have kids..
“However, I do agree with them on one point. I, too, support their children’s decisions not to have children. The world doesn’t need more fools.”+
Good article, Dennis—and sad, but true. One would think that these people would realize at some point that none of the dire predictions by climate change advocates come to pass. They are based on computer models that are projected out for several decades and the time comes and goes and nothing happens. So, these important life decisions that people make based upon these false premises ends up robbing them of some of the greatest joys they could have in Life.
It is frustrating and sad that people buy into these ridiculous projections and warnings that simply hold no merit. But the perpetrators of the nonsense keep changing the terminology and adjusting their doom and gloom forecasts which is adopted by college professors and relentlessly sensationalized by the Media. And the Left has a made-to-order econtrol tool. Now with COVID and climate change running concurrently, they feel like they have got it made.
Their brains are too ROTTED, from liberalism, to ever make that connection.
I don’t have grand children and its probably because my first kid came when I was 40. now 27 years later I don’t want any because I may get to warm chasing them around. 😛
One problem is that communist educational institutions are NOT teaching true history anymore. Around 1300 the earths climate changed and average temps warmed up. No cars, no factories, no oil, no coal. Just a natural change that happens in cycles to the earth. The result was longer growing seasons so food production increased which made other areas of the middle aged economies expand and the life expectancy increased. Dummycrat refuse to let that information come out.
SINCE THEY love going after everyone ELSE’s kids, via their pushing more and more indoctrination, from K to university, THEY DON’T need to procreate…
The sun has several cycles. We hear frequently about the eleven-year sunspot cycle. But there are other cycles of other durations. These resonate to produce a climate cycle with a length of about 1,500 years, with variation from precise synchrony of up to 500 years. This has been observed in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, in lake-bottom and sea-bottom sediment cores around the world, in stalagmites around the world, in tree rings around the world, in pollen counts around the world, and many other sources. The Earth was cool 200 years before the rise of the Roman empire. The Roman period is called, by climate historians, the “Roman Warm Period.” Then the Earth became cool. Historians call that the Dark Ages. Then there was the Medieval Warming, which was at least, on average, two degrees warmer than now. Then there was the Little Ice Age, from which we emerged in 1870 — the coldest year in 8,000 years. Coincidentally, 1870 is the year the world began to keep systematic temperature records. The “experiment” that climate alarmists insist is “scientific” started at the worst possible time — for honest scientific inquiry — but at the best possible time for political exploitation.
Read “Unstoppable Global Warming” by Fred Singer and Dennis Avery.
Read http://vandyke.mynetgear.com/Nuclear.html.
This is how gullibility is removed from the gene pool. The problem solves itself; Unfortunately, in the meantime, they keep screwing things up for the rest of us by voting.
Thing is, SINCE THEY ARE SHOVING this crapolium down the throats of everyone ELSES kids, via indoctrinations in schools and such, they don’t NEED TO Procreate, to keep SPREADING…
Idiots…