And convinced them to break off their silly long distance relationship. It would be a tremendous waste of resources if anyone so naive they'd seriously spend time weighing the ecological impact of their relationship actually reproduced.

why do long distance relationships necessarily have to be silly? If you find someone worth the effort I think you should stick with them. Why not simply try and reduce your ecological impact in other aspects, while also finding a more environmentally-friendly method of travel? Take a train, for example, or drive a fuel-efficient car, or even a car which doesn't depend on fossil fuel? I think the idea of breaking off long distance relationships - and this aritcle seems to also be suggesting not visiting family or friends as well as lovers - for the sake of being "environmentally friendly" is taking it a little far. The logic behind thisi article suggests that we should go back to living in small, isolated villages, which is both unresonable and impossible. This entire article is just way too radical to be taken seriously.

long-distance relationships are a bad gamble, and some of us have had friends tap us on the shoulder and explain as much, .... but that doesn't work; because you'd chop your own goolies off for true love, (as you should)... and a little bit of travel is nothing compared to the way she looks in the moonlight.  The way she laughs when you really hit her spot...the way she tousles here hair, or flicks her cigarette, or scratches her gunt when you're not looking!  Don't talk to the love-struck about eco-meeko-sham-ogical footprints.........geeez, can't you count?  Don't you understand exponentials????? If Leonardo the gimp was busy chatting up the chubby hot british bird on your half-upside cruise liner, ... would you a) lecture them about the futility of romance?  Or would you b) please shoot yourself in the head;  c) ring the non-existant coast guard on your non-existant cellphone;  d) find the nearest bloody big iceburg we could swim to and thereby not sink.  ????????????????

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