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Napsal: čtv 29. říj 2020 3:34:16Pepino and most of the commenters are choosing not to have kids because of the impact it will have on their child. They don't want to bring a person into a world of uncertainty and pain. For me, though, the issue is not what sort of world my child might inherit. The world is often painful and frequently violent, for many people today and most of human history. What's different today is our impact on other humans, especially poor people and people of color, but also on animals. And for me, that's much more motivating and much more painful.Pepino agrees about the urgency of reducing emissions, but disagrees on the method.
This question follows me around. It breathes down my neck. It's this question that motivated me to go on birth strike. And it's why I feel compelled to agree with Hickey, to go beyond the idea that having a baby or even not having one is merely a personal decision. I try to talk about this feeling with people. I try to tell my friends, my peers good, progressive people who believe, on some level, that climate change is real. But they stare at me, blank or angry. They tell me autonomy is sacrosanct, that reproductive choice is limitless, and that the decision to have or not have children should be individual and automatically supported.
I am a birth striker because I spent most of my life in a world where I was told that my only value came from having children in a world where I had no other option. I'm a birth striker because every day brings another news article, another ugly contour of the coming catastrophe. I am a birth striker because at night, I dream of refugees in boats that capsize, always capsize, their scarves and clothes pooling around them as they sink. Because I dream of animals standing in a line that bends to infinity, an endless trudge of species waiting for the flood like a perverse reprise of Noah's Ark. I wake up wanting to say: I had the most terrible nightmare. But it is not a nightmare, and almost nobody is listening.
One said he is worried that staff cuts this deep could leave hospitals short of personnel to deploy or to receive patients if old wars escalate or new ones break out in Korea, Eastern Europe or the South China Sea. He also worries about finding civilian replacements when needed, noting chronic staff shortages within the Department of Veterans Affairs medical system that can't be filled even in peacetime.
In Lacey Creek in the month of June, the Lacey's family-owned coal mine is on strike. All up and down the valley the mines are out, but the difference in this case is that Beverly Lacey is reluctant to follow the lead of the other mine owners and bring in scab labor. His family has lived here for generations - as have his miners' families. He knows the men who work for him. They're his men - even when they're in conflict with him, they're his.
This question follows me around. It breathes down my neck. It's this question that motivated me to go on birth strike. And it's why I feel compelled to agree with Hickey, to go beyond the idea that having a baby or even not having one is merely a personal decision. I try to talk about this feeling with people. I try to tell my friends, my peers good, progressive people who believe, on some level, that climate change is real. But they stare at me, blank or angry. They tell me autonomy is sacrosanct, that reproductive choice is limitless, and that the decision to have or not have children should be individual and automatically supported.
I am a birth striker because I spent most of my life in a world where I was told that my only value came from having children in a world where I had no other option. I'm a birth striker because every day brings another news article, another ugly contour of the coming catastrophe. I am a birth striker because at night, I dream of refugees in boats that capsize, always capsize, their scarves and clothes pooling around them as they sink. Because I dream of animals standing in a line that bends to infinity, an endless trudge of species waiting for the flood like a perverse reprise of Noah's Ark. I wake up wanting to say: I had the most terrible nightmare. But it is not a nightmare, and almost nobody is listening.
One said he is worried that staff cuts this deep could leave hospitals short of personnel to deploy or to receive patients if old wars escalate or new ones break out in Korea, Eastern Europe or the South China Sea. He also worries about finding civilian replacements when needed, noting chronic staff shortages within the Department of Veterans Affairs medical system that can't be filled even in peacetime.
In Lacey Creek in the month of June, the Lacey's family-owned coal mine is on strike. All up and down the valley the mines are out, but the difference in this case is that Beverly Lacey is reluctant to follow the lead of the other mine owners and bring in scab labor. His family has lived here for generations - as have his miners' families. He knows the men who work for him. They're his men - even when they're in conflict with him, they're his.