Misdirected Environmental Concern
It has now been snowing since 3:30 this afternoon in what I'm pretty sure is the BILLIONTH fucking snowstorm of this never-ending winter. As I looked out the window at the buckets of fluffy stuff falling from the sky, it got me thinking about just one thing—global warming.
Here in Utah, it's not altogether too uncommon to meet the owner of a hybrid car who is also the proud parent of seven or more children. I doubt that this is unique to my home state, as there are plenty of fundy hyperbreeders to be found all around the world. But what I want to know is, am I the only one who finds this approach to saving the world ridiculously hypocritical?
Let's think about it for a minute. In one generation seven children will need seven new homes that likely haven't been built yet. They'll need seven to fourteen new cars that they'll drive to work every day. Their families will consume massive amounts of diapers, toys, televisions, computers, food, water, heating gas and electricity. But somehow it's all cool. You're driving a hybrid.
Do you really want to save the environment? Great. Try using the single most powerful tool for environmental preservation known to man: birth control.
Update (2/16/2008): Al Gore has four children. Al Gore has gigantic houses and heated pools. You do the math. And I'm not impressed just because he won a prize from the same people who thought Yasser Arafat was a model for peace.
Here in Utah, it's not altogether too uncommon to meet the owner of a hybrid car who is also the proud parent of seven or more children. I doubt that this is unique to my home state, as there are plenty of fundy hyperbreeders to be found all around the world. But what I want to know is, am I the only one who finds this approach to saving the world ridiculously hypocritical?Let's think about it for a minute. In one generation seven children will need seven new homes that likely haven't been built yet. They'll need seven to fourteen new cars that they'll drive to work every day. Their families will consume massive amounts of diapers, toys, televisions, computers, food, water, heating gas and electricity. But somehow it's all cool. You're driving a hybrid.
Do you really want to save the environment? Great. Try using the single most powerful tool for environmental preservation known to man: birth control.
Update (2/16/2008): Al Gore has four children. Al Gore has gigantic houses and heated pools. You do the math. And I'm not impressed just because he won a prize from the same people who thought Yasser Arafat was a model for peace.
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Good point.
There are an awful lot of young people not having children at all because of not wanting to bring a child into a world as messed up as ours.
Maybe there's some balance to that? Probably not enough.
It seems to me that it's the people who seem to be the most oblivious to reality that have the most children. Their primitive brains run their show.