Sometimes it strikes me how completely absurd our current way of doing things is - especially when I head south (meaning Boston and south of there) where they have numerous highways with 4 lanes in each direction or even bigger. By the the vast majority, it is accepted as normal for countless thousands of machines to be continuously burning a finite, ancient resource as if there were no end to it. It becomes even more starkly absurd when stuck in a traffic jam - the burning is still happening, without even anything to show for it. Similar examples are abundant; drive-throughs (unless you turn off your engine), automobile racing, and on and on. It isn't surprising to me then, that all this non-stop burning is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere and the seas, raising the temperature and acidifying the oceans. I'm going to start calling automobiles toasters for their contribution to toasting the planet. The term could also be applied to people who drive everywhere without thought to the climate and environment altering consequences.
Has this been a useful post? Probably not, but I just needed to get it off my chest.
