A ride with a Bakken water trucker

Thanks for being able to get the story without the condemnation. Mike Reynolds seems like a nice guy. Doesn’t he ever wonder about the results of his work? I suspect there are lots of nice guys like him on all the rungs of the ladder. Then again he did notice the sulfur in the air…

Who uses the energy? We do. What happens when more people are added to the planet? Increased consumption. It's time that we start recognizing that procreation leads to pollution, in general. That's why the newest information out of Oregon State University about the carbon footprint of one's children, called "carbon legacy," is so key. One child in US uses a lot of resources, so one can't just point to countries with high population growth. It's up to every one of us to stop having more than one child as well as to lower consumption. Or maybe we could issues credits for those who are child free. The stats I saw were that one average child in the U.S. = $500,000 in carbon credits. Maybe menopausal women without children should be given the money value of their carbon credit. I wonder what that would do. This is a taboo topic, of course. The only environmental organization I've found that addresses the issue directly is the Center for Biological Diversity. The rest of the organizations dance around the topic. When I've spoken to people, for example, who work on population and environment at WWF (I won't name name), they say that the topic is off-limit in the USA. Hmm . . . So maybe Mike Reynolds is a nice guy. Maybe alot of women are nice gals, but that doesn't mean that our children aren't destroying the planet. It just means we'd rather not think about it.