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that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Galatians 1:6"Just days after U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned the environmental cost of having children on an Instagram Live Q&A, two women in the U.K. appeared on the Victoria Derbyshire show to share why they have gone on a “BirthStrike.”
Blythe Pepino, founder of BirthStrike, told the BBC broadcaster that she would not be having kids. She shared that she is “terrified” to bring a child into the world because of climate change.Pepino said, “Our planet is in a kind of collapse. The natural world is collapsing around us, and that’s actually happening right now.”
According to the video interview, Pepino also decided to ask her friends on Facebook if any of them felt the same way.
She said, “And I was asking around people I know, put it up a little bit on Facebook and realize actually quite a lot of other people are making this decision.”
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She continued, “We realized it was really — really important to tell the public that there are people out there are so scared about this that they feel that they can’t actually have a family.”
Alice Brown, also shared with Derbyshire that she was on a “BirthStrike.” Brown shared that she struggles daily with the impact people have on the environment noting that she feels “hopeless” and “depressed” about it.
According to Derbyshire, Pepino and Brown are a part of a growing movement of women who are refusing to have children." BCN
