The group says its aims are, ‘Support and encourage a citizens uprising in the UK (of about 2 million people) involving low level and higher risk acts of civil disobedience by some (with others willing to support those that take actions).’
An international movement of women are ‘going on strike’ from having babies – due to the looming fear of climate change.
Singer Blythe Pepino, 33, set up the organisation Birth Strike in response to fears of ‘climate breakdown and civilisation collapse’. Pepino says that since the organisation launched, up to 140 British women have pledged not to have children.that she had been contacted by many women who shared her ‘decision not to bear children due to the severity of the ecological crisis’.
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