A Just Stop Oil activist has revealed he will not be having any children and has urged others to follow suit on a “moral” basis.
He announced the decision on GB News while discussing protesters who have been sentenced for disrupting the British Grand Prix.
Full-time student Eddie Whittingham told Patrick Christys that the climate crisis is so severe that bringing children into the world would not be appropriate.
“I already have decided that I won’t be having children because I can’t guarantee that there will be a habitable planet for them to grow up into,” he said.
GB News presenter Patric Christys was left shocked by the demand
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“I think it’s the moral choice, given the circumstances we are facing.”
Asked whether it would be morally wrong to bring more children into the world, Whittingham reaffirmed his pledge.
He told Patrick Christys: “If we don’t sort out the climate crisis.”
The Just Stop Oil spokesman spoke on GB News about six climate change activists who were sentenced following the chaotic scenes of the British Grand Prix in 2022, where five of the individuals in question were dragged off the racing circuit.
Just Stop Oil protesters have been sentenced after taking to the Silverstone track to protest during an F1 race
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Three of the six defendants were given suspended prison terms while three others were given 12-month community orders.
Louis McKechnie, 22, and 24-year-old Emily Brocklebank – who have a joint previous conviction for gluing themselves to the frame of a £70 million Van Gogh painting days before the F1 protest – were given suspended prison sentences of 12 months and six months respectively, both suspended for two years.
Mother-of-four Bethany Mogie, 40, was given a six-month sentence of imprisonment, suspended for two years.
Speaking ahead of the sentencing, Whittingham said: “What we need to be talking about is why did four young people, a mother of four and former health and safety officer be compelled to do this in the first place?
“One and a half degrees of warming is now locked in. Two degrees of warming is likely.
“If we go over two degrees, we could destabilise global civilisation, so I think employment prospects are certainly the least of my worries at the moment.”
Asked about previous doomsday warnings surrounding climate change which haven’t come to the fore, Whittingham cited the use of “supercomputers” in modern research on the issue.
He said to Patrick Christys: “The research has come lightyears and each piece of research gets scarier and scarier.
“You can cherry-pick examples from the past or you can focus on what 11,000 scientists are saying, because that’s what the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is.
“t’s made up of a thousand scientists who aren’t paid, they review all the peer-reviewed publications that have come out.
“They are saying if we do not take emergency action, we are doomed