From 43ea1d8ae931cfafe9a921c71e40c1a2c13804701d3166ce16c4778a02b4e07b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Johnson Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: Change post to entry --- content/post/breaking-my-promise.md | 14 -------------- 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 content/post/breaking-my-promise.md (limited to 'content/post/breaking-my-promise.md') diff --git a/content/post/breaking-my-promise.md b/content/post/breaking-my-promise.md deleted file mode 100644 index 712cb38..0000000 --- a/content/post/breaking-my-promise.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "Breaking My Promise" -date: 2021-12-02T00:00:00 -draft: 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 publically, 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 publically 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/) -- cgit v1.2.3