From 6727c3087307c00f39f7f618f7fb1a42326595573a57d775c2da2f7ae91a6492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Johnson Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: Initial commit --- content/post/breaking-my-promise.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..712cb38 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/breaking-my-promise.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +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