The climate flagellator

Chris Korda has released an album about climate change with "Apologize to the Future". The music is complex techno, the message is rather simple.

Apocalypse is always a bit sexy. Part of pessimism is fear. The fact that there are currently very real reasons for apocalyptic sentiments does not change this.

Enter Chris Korda. The producer, performer and software developer from the USA, who lives in Berlin, has released "Apologize to the Future", an album that takes a drastic approach to the climate crisis. Not when it comes to the music, it's artificial to sterile techno with bone-dry polymetric funk. The texts are dramatic, presented in polyphonic computer singing. Korda describes the consequences of overpopulation, both ecologically and economically, only to always end up with the same credo: "Don't procreate".

Almost sounds plausible. To prevent something worse from happening, it's better to have fewer than far too many. It's just that the message is one that is more likely to be heard in the US and Europe, where populations are slowly growing. It is unclear whether Korda's sermons also reach Asia or Africa. And there, having children is often not a question of "greed," as Korda assumes, but rather a question of economic necessity.

The disadvantage of being born

But Korda's irony-free climate-flagellation seems to have little compassion for its own species anyway: "More mouths to feed / Is the last thing we need" is even reminiscent of the rhetoric of the Nazi era (keyword "useless eaters").

Perhaps the motivation for Korda's antinatalism - she founded the provocative sect "Church of Euthanasia" in 1992 - lies elsewhere. After all, lines like "I didn't ask to be born / Into a disaster porn" essentially say that she didn't ask to be born. A disadvantage that pessimists like Emil Cioran have already complained about. You don't have to take the record seriously as such. Even more so as a symptom of the XR generation.

The preceding is a translation. The original language is here.