The Enormous Carbon Footprint Of Protecting Pandas

IBD's Capital Hill ^ | 1/29/2010 | Sean Higgins

[Slyscribe]

The local news in Washington, D.C., is making a big deal about the return of the National Zoo’s panda, Tai Shan, to his native China to, ahem, participate in a breeding program. The departure is “breaking the hearts” of the district’s many panda fans, the Washington Post reported. Zoo officials even plan a major going-away party.

But apparently pandas only fly first class, and that requires lots of costly jet fuel, generating plenty of carbon emissions.

[twister881]

So, pandas are doing to environment what they're doing to each other? Nuke 'em!

[twister881]

[ZULU]

Every once in a while a see a comment from fellow conservatives which make me feel ashamed.

This is one of them.

[twister881]

You’ve missed the satire. Pandas are great, and every one of them should have its own jumbo jet and carbon footprint as big as Al Gore’s, if that’s appropriate. The slam is on the leftists who deny that global warming (oh, excuse me, “climate change”) is a hoax propped up by the worst kind of junk science.

[GraceG]

Pandas are pretty miserable unable to adapt animals this planet has ever seen, why they haven’t gone extinct already without any human interference/help is beyond me.

[ari-freedom]

I really am more concerned for the pandas. I saw those pandas at the National Zoo a few years ago and thought to myself “maybe that will be the last time I’ll ever see a panda”

[ZULU]

Sorry.