Do you know what the #1, most significant thing any of us can do to reduce climate change? Have one fewer child.

Nothing else even comes close. It’s a simple fact. It’s easy to do. But nobody wants to do that.

It’s far less painful to pretend that we can keep the Titanic from sinking by making sure we sip our boat drinks from metal straws.

The point of the post is that we’re trying to consume our way out of a consumption problem, but predictably, a group of technology people want desperately to believe that if we just make the stuff we’re consuming better — with technology! — we’re helping.

To this end, it’s worth pointing out that the only item on that list that relates to family size is midway down, where it talks about family planning for the third world...something other people can do, so that you don’t have to change your life.