Social media users ridiculed a New York Times guest essay that argued on Sunday that shorter people are better for the environment and to avoid damage from climate change.
A guest essay forinsisted that being short is"better" for the future to the amusement of several Twitter users on Sunday and Monday.
"The short are also inherent conservationists, which is more crucial than ever in this world of eight billion. Thomas Samaras, who has been studying height for 40 years and is known in small circles as the Godfather of Shrink Think, a widely unknown philosophy that considers small superior, calculated that if we kept our proportions the same but were just 10 percent shorter in America alone, we would save 87 million tons of food per year ," she wrote.
"When you mate with shorter people, you’re potentially saving the planet by shrinking the needs of subsequent generations. Lowering the height minimum for prospective partners on your dating profile is a step toward a greener planet," she wrote.The article’s headline as well as the subject was heavily mocked on Twitter for linking height to saving the planet
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