Children versus SUVs

REPOST: November 2006


I don't own an SUV.

I have no imminent plans to buy one.

However, I would not feel guilty if I did choose to buy one and consume however much gas it would take to drive it around.

How can I justify this?

Well, I'm not having kids. Not now, not ever.

This means I will free up, for the future, all the resources that these potential children might have consumed, as well as any resources that might have been consumed by the children that my not-to-be-had children might have produced. I will have saved the future environment from a potentially indefinite amount of damage. Yay for me.

The damage that I might cause in the future driving my future dark blue SUV back and forth between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara pales into insignificance.

Be environmentally friendly: Don't breed.

I must see if you can buy bumper stickers that say something like that.