I’m a little bit blown away. My daughter Jessalyn just published an issue of g-think for her New York advertising firm.
Here on Energy Blog she has occasionally sparred with the childless Tarus, founder of OpenNMS. For years I have referred to my four “unsustainable children,” and while that always gets a laugh, Jess has persistently argued on behalf of progeny.
I have to say I am stunned. This issue of g-think is on “energy,” and I am amazed. When she asked me for a contribution I sent one in. When she asked for a brief description of my article, I said, “It’s about stabbing a heated spike into the gelatinous cyclopic eye of the status quo.”
She replied with a request for something that would not get her fired. And behold. My article appears beneath a closeup of an eyeball.
She contributed her own review of Thomas Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded, which is a tough book to review. On my website I only review books that I can gush over, and I sort of favored Harm De Blij’s The Power of Place, that offers a counter balance to Friedman’s work.
All told, I’m thinking Jess finds this edition of g-think to be a little “Estill heavy,” which I generally think of as a good thing.
When I see this g-think issue it makes me proud. And impressed. I have sat in the audience watching Jess duke it out with Tarus. He is right that a childless guy can go through as much carbon as he likes, and still not match the footprint of a father like me. And Jess is right that brilliant children are what will find a path to sustaining human life on this planet.
I need to ping Tarus. If I were a boxing judge, I believe Jess just landed a point…
Original post by Lyle
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