Chief Prognosticator

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

First of all, with all this buzz about “reducing your carbon footprint”, I’d like to say how useless it seems given the billions of people in India and China who don’t give a rats ass about it and continue to grow their countries at break neck speed with little consideration of the environment. No seriously, you want the worst air quality in the world? It’s not America, baby — it’s Beijing, China.

Now here’s a crazy idea I heard on a podcast last week — the biggest thing a person can do to reduce their carbon footprint is…. have less children. Just married and have your heart set on three children? Stop at two and reduce your carbon footprint 20%! Have just one kid and reduce it 40% over your entire life. Is this crazy? Yes. But in some countries and even demographics where people have two, three, four or five kids in their family, it could really make a big difference.