I'm a hypocrite.

Hey world,

I just wanted to start off my blog experience with a look at our transportation. I love vehicles. I love the intoxicating feeling of being pushed into your seat from something other than gravity. I love how when you got into a hard turn, you feel like you're getting somewhere important. I love how being in an airplane makes you feel feelings of freedom that you didn't think you could possess.

But I also love the environment. I'm an advocate for it, and I believe it is a sensitive system that is currently being meddled with by us humans. The animals, plants, and even land that we tamper and affect is also immeasurable. Being someone with a scientific background, I know that all of this thoughtless use of our environment has to amount to some consequence.

Then again, I love cars and planes and anything that moves. See my issue? I'm a living, breathing, studying hypocrisy. I love and hate the same thing.

So what do I do about this conundrum? By eliminating the consequences of each, of course. Cars and planes are bad because they pollute, and going "green" is bad because it confines us to a small vehicle that we can't use for anything. To make the world accept something new, it must be better in almost every single way. We've got money, that's not the issue. The issue is quality of life. I love my car because it puts a smile on my face every time I drive it, and green cars threaten to put an end to that happiness. But what if we blurred the line of compromise until the obvious choice was a better car for everyone?

That's what needs to happen if we want to go green. We have to have fun AND be green, not one or the other. We have to move out of that apartment AND not worry about our charge running out on the way to a new one. Sure, I have ideas. I bet you do too. But nothing will come of it unless someone with a little extra money gets a bunch of us together and puts us to work. At least then I wouldn't have to call myself a hypocrite.