I’ve often felt some small amount of awe at the lack of guilt and the conversely intense sense of entitlement Europeans feel about their vacation time. There have been many times in my career, usually during a stressful period in which I’ve been putting in many more hours than I consider reasonable, when I felt that 6 weeks of vacation a year was the MINIMUM for sanity and that maybe, just maybe, those lazy Europeans were actually on to something.
Now, via Reason, there seems to be a side benefit to all that sloth: reduced greenhouse emissions. It’s the second item on the page, after the prostate cancer piece.
I am no longer skeptical of the claims that global warming is caused by human activity. In fact, I am now so consumed with guilt over my contributions to the problem that I will be demanding at least six months vacation each year from now on.
Hear Hear!