In this excerpt from The Dennis Prager Show (recorded 2021-09-22), host Dennis Prager argues that a growing number of college‑educated women are choosing not to have children because they are frightened by climate change, carbon‑footprint concerns, and a perceived unstable world. He labels these women as "spoiled brats" who have been indoctrinated by the education system and media to view the world as unsafe, despite historical data showing greater safety and prosperity. Prager claims that a child would add tons of carbon emissions and waste, while the world’s instability could harm the child. He invites a caller, Michael, a college student from Chicago, who agrees, stating that his classmates share the same fear, attributing it to media and educational messaging. The segment ends with Prager taking a break, reinforcing his pro‑natal stance and dismissing climate‑based child‑avoidance as absurd.
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old. Wait, I'm not done with how much harm your baby will do. They'll create X tons of carbon, X tons of trash. Now you know why I don't think you should send your kid to college. Or at least most colleges. And then the other question is, what kind of harm would a hotter and less stable and more potentially violent world do to my kid? So not only will my kid harm the world with all his or her diapers and tons of carbon and tons of trash, but the world may ruin my child. It's thinking about entering the system that feels so very fragile and so very unstable. We're living in a time of entwined, unending crisis. That's because she went to college and reads the New York Times and watches CNN that she believes that the world is safer than at any time in recorded history, Ms. Kellman. She continues, I want to be really clear that my decision around this is unmade. What I want to see is a sign that people are taking this seriously, that there is a good faith collaborative effort to make the world safe. The world is safe, Miss PhD from an Ivy League university. They don't know that. They learn nothing. That's why I say they're spoiled brats. They have it so good that they think it's bad. To think that a person would not have a child because they will produce too much carbon footprint is to enter the realm of the absurd. On a level that is incomprehensible. When I come to a place like Dallas Baptist University, one thing I'm pretty assured of is virtually none of the women here think this way. I got some young women at the table. Would you say that that's true? Any of your fellow females here thinking, I don't know if I'll bring a child in A lot of diapers. They're cracking up, my friends. I wish you could see them. They are cracking up. Did you know that there are a lot of women who think this way? Is this sort of news to you? Yeah, it should. I would imagine it is. I mean, it's— hey, Michael in Chicago, Illinois, hello.
Hi, Mr. Prager, sir. I definitely agree with your statement that there are a lot of women, and even a few of my classmates, I'm in college, they definitely share that belief that they're afraid, they're even scared of thinking of even thinking of having children because of the fear that it's so instilled in them through the education system, through the media. They just don't feel comfortable, even when in reality our country and many other countries are completely safe and far better than they were in the late 20th century.
So are you at college?
Yes, that's right.
And you know women your age who are afraid to bring in a child because the world is so dangerous, is that correct?
Yeah.
Okay, I gotta take a break. In fact, I need to take a break. The Dennis Prager Show, live every day.
