#antinatalism — Public Fediverse posts

@epochemagazine A nice article! Just happened to read Kirk Lougheed's (not so good) IEP-entry on Anti-Natalism, https://iep.utm.edu/anti-natalism/

#life #birth #procreation #realism #pessimism #antinatalism #depression #population #society #philosophy #psychology #reasoning #thinking

@epochemagazine A nice article! Just happened to read Kirk Lougheed's (not so good) IEP-entry on Anti-Natalism, https://iep.utm.edu/anti-natalism/

#life #birth #procreation #realism #pessimism #antinatalism #depression #population #society #philosophy #psychology #reasoning #thinking

@epochemagazine A nice article! Just happened to read Kirk Lougheed's (not so good) IEP-entry on Anti-Natalism, https://iep.utm.edu/anti-natalism/

#life #birth #procreation #realism #pessimism #antinatalism #depression #population #society #philosophy #psychology #reasoning #thinking

@epochemagazine A nice article! Just happened to read Kirk Lougheed's (not so good) IEP-entry on Anti-Natalism, https://iep.utm.edu/anti-natalism/

#life #birth #procreation #realism #pessimism #antinatalism #depression #population #society #philosophy #psychology #reasoning #thinking

This cracks me up:

ANTI
NATALISTS
Why do
they keep
getting born?

The guy has a knack for sarcasm and irony.

https://triapul.cz/_/1764502681

#antinatalism #efilism #funhole #pessimism #philosophicalpessimism #philosophy #triapul #unix_surrealism

What an article by @SAPIENS_org on antinatalism. Thank you for reporting on this essential topic!!! (Link with tracking from Firefox's new tab to show support for these topics!) https://www.sapiens.org/culture/japan-reproduction-death-anti-natalism-movement/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us (Link without tracking.) https://www.sapiens.org/culture/japan-reproduction-death-anti-natalism-movement :vegan: :vegan: :vegan:❤️❤️❤️✨✨✨💖💖💖 #Antinatalism #Antinatalist #Veganism #Vegan #Intersectional #Intersectionality #Japan #Movement #Activism #Activist #Population #Populationdecline #DontPopAdopt #Reproduction

What an article by @SAPIENS_org on antinatalism. Thank you for reporting on this essential topic!!! (Link with tracking from Firefox's new tab to show support for these topics!) https://www.sapiens.org/culture/japan-reproduction-death-anti-natalism-movement/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us (Link without tracking.) https://www.sapiens.org/culture/japan-reproduction-death-anti-natalism-movement :vegan: :vegan: :vegan:❤️❤️❤️✨✨✨💖💖💖 #Antinatalism #Antinatalist #Veganism #Vegan #Intersectional #Intersectionality #Japan #Movement #Activism #Activist #Population #Populationdecline #DontPopAdopt #Reproduction

More children means more pollution, and yet developed countries are trying to increase birth rates to sustain economic ponzi schemes at the expense of the environment.
#natalism #natalists #antinatalism #pollution #birthrates #children #environmentalism #globalwarming #climatechange #economics #gdp #ponzi #pensions #globalnorth #demographics #demographiccrisis

I wanted to know if having a kid on a burning planet was right.

"In Australia, young people such as Anjali Sharma are having to sue their leaders and elders to try to get the government to acknowledge they have a duty of care not to exacerbate the climate emergency. The government fought the young people and the government won."

"Since May 2022, the federal environment minister has approved 11 new coalmines or expansions with 1,677m tonnes of lifetime emissions. That doesn’t sound like a nation that values new and future lives. Sometimes it feels as though the wrong things are taboo.
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/28/should-we-have-children-burning-planet-author-bri-lee-seed-book-antinatalism-seriously-taboo
#Climate #ClimateBreakdown #FossilFuels #coal #GHG #extractivism #antinatalism #pronatalism #children #governance #DutyOfCare #Australia #taboo

Recall that #Kremlin #Russia began to ban online resources for "propaganda of suicide", and in particular for "descriptions of acts of self-harm or suicide" back in 2013: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD_%E2%84%96_398-%D0%A4%D0%97_2013_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.

The noun "#Roskomnadzor", the name of the agency responsible for censorship, soon became a verb: "to commit [ROSKOMNADZOR]" was RuNet's new "convert to Islam".

Nine years before the full-scale war.

#OnlineSafetyAct #ThinkOfTheChildren #Antinatalism #Suicide

"The leftists I know are all engaged and committed to fighting back. They’re not cowering doomsday preppers. They are working hard and showing more ambition than anyone else in politics. It’s the liberals and centrists who are the pessimistic, unimaginative ones who think we must take baby steps and that nothing good is possible. In fact, I think the excess negativity on the left here is Guastella’s. He is telling us we’re all a bunch of failures unworthy of the great Karl Marx. (“Are there any intellectuals of the Left today whose insights and commitment to humanity’s long-term horizon rival those of Karl Marx or Karl Polanyi?”)

But look, I believe in solidarity. I don’t want a rift with Guastella and Jacobin here, because I have immense respect for Jacobin and warm, comradely feelings toward them. I don’t feel Guastella is being fair to me or to Melonio, Taylor, Klein, or Steffen, but the important point is that we all agree, actually. He writes that “without a flag staked in the future — a clear vision of the world we want for our children and theirs — we lose track of where we want to go.” Well you don’t have to tell me, Dustin. I write things like that all the time. So let’s not bicker, eh? There’s no need to write articles in Jacobin castigating fellow leftists as “unserious, misanthropic, and bound to lose.” Just join with us as we build the glorious socialist future together. Solidarity forever!"

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/excuse-me-but-i-am-a-utopian

#Socialism #Utopianism #LeftWing #Antinatalism

“What is repulsive about children – all children – is not that they are not yet adults, but that they are already adults – whining, self-absorbed, demanding attention, unable to care for themselves, throwing tantrums when things don’t go their way. Far from what we tell ourselves, children are the most concise expressions of humanity. At least children are unaware of this.”

~ Eugene Thacker

#antinatalism #pessimism #humanity #adult #climatechange #philosophicalpessimism

“For optimists, the most perplexing question is how one becomes a pessimist – if one is not born one. For the pessimist, the question is how each person, by virtue of being born, is not already a pessimist.”

~Eugene Thacker

#quotes #philosophy #philosophicalpessimism #antinatalism #quotestoliveby #optimism

“Being born is strictly an action that happens to us, and concerning this primary fact we are neither ‘free’ nor ‘responsible’.”


—Julio Cabrera

#Philosophy #PhilosophicalPessimism #AntiNatalism #JulioCabrera

Current before-bed read when I don't just collapse into sleep, Christine Overall's "Why Have Children?" (#MITP 2012). I don't always agree with Overall in her other work, but I'm interested to see how she works through the questions here--the question of bringing new creatures into the world really weighs on me some days, looking forward to #feminist discussion of the putative reasons in favour.

#natalism #antinatalism #HavingChildren #philosophy