What people are saying about the video:
"Thanks, Robertson, for this important piece…we need all the grassroots messages out there we can get. Keep it up!" (USA, YouTube comment)
"It's brilliant...and shared on round thanks." (USA, Facebook comment)
"Nice work. I'll share that...all day long. I could even…spend money on a book. Go on…chapter 3.... :D Thanks man." (Austria, YouTube comment)
The Ostriches' Last Stand: "Climate Change? What Climate Change?"
Using a storytelling style that is often irreverently funny, and sometimes brutally frank, author Robertson W. Carter (robertson.w.carter@acquence.com, @RWCarterAuthor) presents a video teaser for Chapter 2 of his proposed book "No Baby, No Cry: Feeling Great and Doing Good as a Passionately Green Nonparent". With segments such as "The Cocky Economist", "17 Billion Ethiopians", and "The Ostrich's Guide to the Most Important Things in the World", this video blends cheeky rhetoric, well-researched facts, and a catchy and a dramatic soundtrack. Check it out, and don't hold back when you let Carter know what you think. Please e-mail the link to your friends, and share it on Facebook.
From the Introduction to No Baby, No Cry:
Each of us was a baby once, but not all of us will be parents. The decision—or, often, the accident—that leads some of us into parenthood is highly personal, and discussed infrequently. Still rarer, even taboo, is discussion of the decision being made by increasing numbers of us to be “nonparents”. And in the 21st Century, these decisions are inseparable from the overarching challenge of our time: how to preserve the global environment, as population, consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise.
Robertson W. Carter’s book No Baby, No Cry: Feeling Great and Doing Good as a Passionately Green Nonparent lifts the veil on these decisions and others. Citing the work of numerous researchers, authors, and experts, Carter guides us through the many issues involved: from regional birth rate patterns and the human-generated causes of global climate change, to the social and psychological factors that often contribute to confusion, apathy, and paralysis. In No Baby, No Cry, Carter helps us cut through the noise and the nonsense, and offers a clear path to a brighter future.
Yes, this book promotes, among other things, the choice not to have children; but it goes far beyond that. As the title suggests, it also encourages us to care deeply for those children who are already born, and those who are yet to be born. And that means doing everything we can to brighten their future, by making greener life choices today: consuming less, consuming smarter, and, of course, having fewer children. This book should be read by anyone who wants a clearer understanding of the many challenges we all face in preserving the Earth, as best we can, for all her future inhabitants.
