It's not everyday that someone like me finds a new cultural hero.

[hunter]

5. Especially "affluent" babies.

Some random family of ten living in a Cairo slum is probably doing less damage to earth's environment than any affluent U.S. family with two kids and two nice cars and a nice house in the suburbs.

My wife and I do not have nice cars, but the math is still scary.

My good Catholic heretic parents, and my wife's good Catholic parents, all one-percenters by world standards, had a bunch of one-percenter kids before they discovered birth control. And now they have boatloads of one-percenter (by world standard) grandkids.

My parents are a few years on with one-percenter great grandkids too. The sorts of kids who have ridden in airliners.

My great grandparents used negligible amounts of fossil fuel in their lives, even considering their very rare coal-fired steam engine railroad trips. (Most of my ancestors sailed across the Atlantic from Europe, sometimes just ahead of the hangman or draft board.)

Their progeny, including me perhaps especially, have used much, much more than our fair share of this earth.