Are you willing to consider giving up meat to reduce greenhouse gases causing climate change?

[hunter]

126. I have yet to convince my wife we could do without a refrigerator...

... even though there was a time in my childhood we didn't have one, and times in my young adulthood I didn't have one. We're fortunate to live in a place we don't need air conditioning, much heat, or the typical automobile commute to work.

I'm vegetarian most days of the week, my wife is vegetarian all of the time, but we'd be silly to brag about it because we don't expect the same of our dogs.

I do tend to have a low opinion, however of people who do not spay or neuter their dogs and cats (all our dogs misfits from the animal shelter) and people who do not practice birth control themselves. There's no shortage of dogs, cats, or people on this planet.

Once upon a time my parents and my wife's parents thought it their religious duty to have many children, so they did and were celebrated for it in church, but there came a point they had more children than they could comfortably support and then they became advocates of sex education and birth control. (I knew all about sex and birth control years before it started to interest me...)

We and our siblings never thought it would be a good idea to have a station wagon full of kids. Statistically if everyone had the same number of kids we and our siblings do the human population of earth would be shrinking.