How a moral philospher justifies his carbon footprint.

[hunter]

3. You have wisely posted this without comment.

Oh my.

We are doomed.

I'll say it again. The only way to quit fossil fuels IS TO QUIT FOSSIL FUELS.

It's a lot like smoking. You quit smoking by quitting, by whatever method you can.

Hah, imagine buying "smoking offsets" for any damage you do to yourself or others by smoking. If I was an amoral person, I might just start such a business.

Hey, for twenty dollars you can smoke an hour in all these non smoking places. Even on airplanes.

Alas, I've got some scruples, and more importantly I very much enjoy No Smoking restaurants, movie theaters, workplaces, etc... I'm glad I live in a place where smoking in public has largely been banned, not just by law, but by fierce social pressure. At my wife's workplace smokers congregate under an abandoned bus stop shelter on the other side of the parking lot, off campus. Smoking is banned on campus, even the parking lots.

This is the 21st century. We have the technology to cross oceans and continents without burning fossil fuels. We just have to do it.