Not that I think China's draconian one-child policy is the best way to go about it, but somehow, in the noise about airplanes and carbon footprints, the simple fact that "a person who was never born has no carbon footprint" has been lost.
The growth in air traffic, oil consumption, and just about any other environmental issue you can think of is being driven my one simple fact: people keep fucking, and they keep popping out children. There's more air traffic because the number of _people_ is increasing. The rate at which we're consuming oil, and the rate at which we're belching carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, are increasing because there are more goddamn people on this little planet of ours. Deal with that issue, and the rest will, if not take care of itself, become drastically more tractable.
So environmentalists: how about instead of harassing air travelers, you hand out condoms and free birth control?
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Are you going to have kids?
Not currently planning to, no. That's my contribution to the world (in more ways than one): not reproducing. :)
Nick,
I couldn't agree with you more!!! ;)
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