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To think one persons’ action on not having one or two kids will save the planet. Must think highly of themselves to think it will make a difference.
by qrbLPHiKpiux 9y ago
To think one persons’ action on not having one or two kids will save the planet. Must think highly of themselves to think it will make a difference.
- kawsper 9y agoDo you recycle?
- Ygg2 9y agoDo you recycle anything other than tin and glass?
- mehrdadn 9y agoPaper?
- robin_reala 9y agoYes? Newsprint, cardboard, plastic, metal, coloured glass, clear glass and food waste go into seperate containers. Also batteries and lightbulbs are collected seperately.
- Ygg2 9y agoCongratulations. Outside of tin, and glass, most things on that list take more energy to recycle than to just grow and/or extract from the ground. Keep that good-feel-but-otherwise-non-ecologically energy flowing.
- cornholio 9y agoPersonally, no, I'm not even recycling tin or glass since I don't own a smelter. But recycling should be an industrial process, I am just to pay taxes on damaging/hard to recycle materials at the time of purchase and pay for the rubbish pick-up. If for the average citizen "recycling" means anything more than separating biological waste from recyclable solids, then it's done wrong.
- tobyhinloopen 9y agoI bet you also don't vote :)
- ForHackernews 9y agoYou're not just avoiding the environmental impact of your hypothetical children, but also grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren and so on.
- gnode 9y agoOr very lowly of themselves, making a selfless decision that is so personally significant, yet by itself so objectively insignificant. Although in the interviewee's case, it seems she personally didn't want to have children anyway, and considers environmental concerns to be a justification for that preference.
- lost_my_pwd 9y agoNo snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.