{"id":197400,"date":"2019-02-27T08:37:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T14:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=197400"},"modified":"2019-02-27T00:38:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T06:38:03","slug":"ocasio-cortez-population-control-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ocasio-cortez-population-control-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s population control ideas won’t save Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Sunday evening, freshman Congresswoman from New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attempted to drum up support for her \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d during an Instagram Live broadcast in which she raised an ominous question with radical population control undertones. \u201cOur planet is going is going to have a disaster if we don\u2019t turn this ship around,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s scientific consensus that lives of children are going to be very difficult. And it does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate question: is it okay to still have children? [\u2026] Just this basic moral question, like what do we do?\u201d<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez is alluding to the grim predictions<\/a> in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which warned of \u201cgenocide,\u201d global food insecurity, as well as dire economic outcomes. Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s question \u2014 and her implied answer \u2014 reflects an increasingly common refrain among public figures<\/a> and institutions<\/a> that assert that aggressive population control, including universal and easy access to abortion, is one of the most effective ways to solve climate change. This ideology has even led some governments to use brutal and extreme measures to control their populations, like the horrific practices of forced abortion and family size limits in China<\/a>. In the United States, such thinking is reflected in major initiatives like massive government funding for abortion<\/a> pushed by House Democrats, many of whom also co-sponsored Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s Green New Deal, on the very first day of the new Congress.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult. And it does lead young people to have a legitimate question: is it okay to still have children?\u201d
\n\u2014@AOC<\/a><\/p>\n

Reminds me of the Green New Deal FAQ:
\n?https:\/\/t.co\/3RtWZeVbJZ<\/a>pic.twitter.com\/TWTYJvbb0P<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) February 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n