Climate alarmist champions limiting families to one child; claims having more children is 'selfish'

Climate alarmists are becoming increasingly forthright about their hostility toward human life.

Donnachadh McCarthy, a failed politician involved in Just Stop Oil and one of the leading figures of Extinction Rebellion, recently went on British television to peddle depopulationist solutions to imagined problems. McCarthy suggested to GB News — just weeks after calling for Israeli forces to surrender — that "there is a moral issue" with having too many children and that families should be limited to one child.

When China adopted as policy the voluntary scheme McCarthy proposed Tuesday, it ended up with a half-billion dead children, a devastating sex ratio imbalance, and a demographic crisis. It's clear, however, that a similar population collapse is precisely what McCarthy and other alarmists want for the West.

McCarthy — who has previously shared a stage with photo opportunist Greta Thunberg — made clear that he regards children as mobile pollutants, citing disputed statistics as evidence.

"Every child in an industrial country like ours has around 505 hundred tonnes of carbon over their lifetime," said McCarthy, who has himself fed plants with his carbon dioxide for over 64 years. "That's equivalent to 1,000 years of electricity for a household. So each child has an impact, and we're saying one is great, two is plenty, and three is selfish."

McCarthy made clear that he is not only concerned about procreation in Western nations like the United Kingdom — which accounts for less than 1% of global carbon dioxide emissions. He similarly bemoaned the British government's apparent failure to do more to help the developing world abort its young.

"When women have access to family planning, rights to work and a right to education, the birth rate falls naturally," he said. "What I think is tragic is that the U.K. government have cut funds for girls in the developing world, and I think that is sad."

McCarthy appears to have been referring to the U.K.'s 2022 reduction in funding for foreign abortions, euphemistically referred to as sexual and reproductive health rights, by nearly a third.

The climate alarmist has long been a proponent of abortion, claiming that the pro-life position of the "patriarchal Abrahamic religions ... is a stain on human progress."

Despite his apparent desire to have the human population reined in, McCarthy's group Extinction Rebellion elsewhere claims to be a movement for the young dedicated to combating a system "contemptuous of humanity."

Nicole Ratcliff, a parenting coach on the GB News panel with McCarthy, said in response to the radical's depopulationist rhetoric, "I am one of four. I'm sorry, we've got a lovely family, and the idea that three is selfish is shocking."

"For me, I think if someone is choosing not to have children because of climate change, that is not somebody who is driven to have them," said Ratcliff. "The need to have children is something that is built within us, and if you are somebody that wants to have them, then you can't switch that urge off."

"There are people out there pending every single penny that they have got to have a child, and if they are made to feel guilty they are contributing to climate change — I feel quite offended by the idea that bringing a much-loved child into the world would be a bad thing to do," added Ratcliff.

Like other radicals, McCarthy's climate hysteria has not only pitted him against big, happy families, but also against daily showers, affordable energy, holiday flights, road trips, water hoses, critics of communist China, meat, and pet ownership.

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