October 20, 2025
Using climate change as an excuse
By Bill Ponton
There is a scene in the movie Annie Hall that depicts a flashback that Woody Allen’s character, Alvy Singer, has in which he is anxiously pacing around his bedroom obsessing over details of the JFK assassination while his girlfriend Allison Portchnik, played by Carol Kane, is sitting cross-legged on the bed, smoking a cigarette and visibly frustrated with his neurotic behavior. The scene culminates with Allison blurting out, “You’re using this conspiracy theory as an excuse to avoid sex with me.” Alvy then turns to the camera addressing the audience and says “Oh, my God! She’s right! Why did I turn off Allison Portchnik? She was — she was beautiful. She was willing. She was real … intelligent.”
This scene came to mind when I read a quote from a recent speech of Kamala Harris at a Women’s Gala in which she talked about reports of young women being reluctant to have children because of anxiety they were experiencing over climate change.
Via Breitbart:
‘They are experiencing what they’ve coined ‘climate anxiety,’ which is their fear that because of changing in extreme weather that the future of their lives is very much at stake,’ Harris went on saying, ‘My goddaughter, who’s a junior in college right now, was crying to me just two days ago, worried about ‘what is the world gonna be for me, auntie, when I want to have kids. Should I even be thinking about having children?’ That’s on top of unaffordable — not for her but for so many in that generation, they don’t aspire to own a home. They don’t believe it’s within their reach.’
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/using_climate_change_as_an_excuse.html
