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diff --git a/content/entry/breaking-my-promise.md b/content/entry/breaking-my-promise.md index 683cfa6..c8b8381 100644 --- a/content/entry/breaking-my-promise.md +++ b/content/entry/breaking-my-promise.md @@ -2,14 +2,9 @@ title: "Breaking My Promise" date: 2021-12-02T00:00:00 draft: false -makerefs: false --- -Towards the end of July, I promised to quit flying until the climate crisis was averted and until the TSA stopped groping passengers.[1] As it turns out, that was a commitment I couldn't keep. I booked a flight. Since I made the commitment very publicly, I don't think it's fair not to write an update after breaking it. I'm not perfect. I suppose the lesson here if there is one is that I shouldn't publicly make commitments that I'm not certain I can keep. +Towards the end of July, [I promised to quit flying](/2021/07/25/flygskam/) until the climate crisis was averted and until the TSA stopped groping passengers. As it turns out, that was a commitment I couldn't keep. I booked a flight. Since I made the commitment very publicly, I don't think it's fair not to write an update after breaking it. I'm not perfect. I suppose the lesson here if there is one is that I shouldn't publicly make commitments that I'm not certain I can keep. Although I still fly, the silver lining is I've made a different personal decision which drastically reduces my net emissions orders of magnitude more than not flying: I'm not having kids. Not having children may be my second best contribution to humanity besides this journal. I'm not 100% committing to this, but I estimate a very high probability that I won't have children. Especially because there's many reasons I don't want children besides just the climate, such as not becoming a slave to people with money. I'm also vegetarian for the climate and animal welfare reasons, but I think any good from that is probably canceled out by my flying. I still think everyone should avoid flying and also avoid having kids. Unfortunately I haven't been able to. So I broke my commitment. That's my update. - - -Link(s): -[1: Flygskam](/2021/07/25/flygskam/) |