> You going to the beach with your dog in a big pickup truck, along with a couple hundred million other people, is the same level of non essential as people fly

> You going to the beach with your dog in a big pickup truck, along with a couple hundred million other people, is the same level of non essential as people flying in private jets (of which there are very, very few). Again, whatever level of nonessential you claim it might be and however you measure that, is irrelevant to what is destroying the environment. Did you not take anything from the previous comment I made? The fact that your idea of "non-essential" means that poor people starve to death while rich people fly around in private jets to parties and vacations. Do you acknowledge that was wrong, or at least proved that the economic measurement of "essential" that you invented is totally arbitrary? I don't see how you can just keep going on without acknowledging this and addressing it.