People = Pollution

We were talking in class today about the impact of overpopulation and I brought up that one of the problems caused by this tends to be an increase in pollution. While this probably spurred some critical thinking in most students, the only one who said anything out loud said the following:

"more people, more farts"

This is funny/wrong for so many reasons. As if human farts actually contribute to air pollution. As if a boy should say this in a class with his female teacher! As if this should EVER be said out loud in class!

After my classic "that's inappropriate" comment and painfully long teacher stare, I had to turn around and laugh to myself.

more farts. geeze.