America's beloved dogs and cats play a significant role in causing global warming, according to a new study by UCLA.
Posted on 08/04/2017 6:40:55 AM PDT by Zakeet
America's beloved dogs and cats play a significant role in causing global warming, according to a new study by UCLA.
Most cat or dog lovers would say they can't imagine living in a world without pets, but as the threat of global warming increases, environmentally conscious pet lovers may need to make some tough choices, according to the study.
Pet ownership in the United States creates about 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, UCLA researchers found. That's the equivalent of driving 13.6 million cars for a year. The problem lies with the meat-filled diets of kitties and pooches, according to the study by UCLA geography professor Gregory Okin.
Dogs and cats are responsible for 25 to 30 percent of the impacts of meat production in the United States, said Orkin. Compared to a plant-based diet, meat production "requires more energy, land and water and has greater environmental consequences in terms of erosion, pesticides and waste," the study found.
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Now you Freepers know what you have to do if you want to save the planet!
What we need to do is use the Pol Pot method of dealing with our university big shots.
Just wow.. loony tunes!
Sarah Palin was right. Lefties sure love death panels. And now I see they’re branching out to dogs and cats.
Sarah Palin was right. Lefties sure love death panels. And now I see they’re branching out to dogs and cats.
Or, roughly equivalent to the findings of studies carried out by UCLA Professors.
It appears that American hunters need to step up their activity and kill more wild game, thus opening up slots for our beloved pets.
If everyone who thinks we should get rid of our pets in order to save the planet would just off themselves, the problem would be solved. IMHO
If everyone who believes CO2 is a dangerous pollutant would stop emitting it personally (ie stop breathing) this “problem” would be solved overnight.
The ‘Dirt Firsters’ agenda is than mankind is bad for the planet and that only their elitist comrades should be allowed to enjoy the paradise they envision.
Poultry is safer for cats anyway. They don’t need to eat cows, goats or sheep which are the major polluters.
Did China pay for this study?
the photo of the dog and cat is priceless...
Pet ownership in the United States creates about 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, UCLA researchers found. That’s the equivalent of driving 13.6 million cars for a year. The problem lies with the meat-filled diets of kitties and pooches, according to the study by UCLA geography professWhor Gregory Okin.
Okin is a frigging geography professor. He is another left wing poster boy for the Intellectual Yet Idiots of America.
Our Governments, Universities/Colleges and many businesses/corporations are controlled and operated by the Intellectual Yet Idiots, who have been controlling our lives for decades. These Intellectual Yet Idiots control our media and most of DC and many states down to the county/city level.
Nassim Taleb Exposes The World’s “Intellectual-Yet-Idiot” Class!
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?, but their main skills is ability to pass exams written by people like them.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?but their main skills is capacity to pass exams written by people like them.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats wanting to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They can’t tell science from scientism?—?in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types?—?those who want to “nudge” us into some behavior?—?much of what they call “rational” or “irrational” comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.)
This is an excerpt. To read or copy the full article go to the link below:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-16/nassim-taleb-exposes-worlds-intellectual-yet-idiot-class
Genocidal A-holes. I don’t know what the next few decades hold for America, but I think i’ll just hold onto Mr. 870 a little while longer.
Cars put out carbon DI-oxide? We needore cars! And pets!
The ‘dirt people’ need to take a flying leap off the next cliff and feed some vultures. The reduction in CO2 should make them happy.
Liberals account for 70% of all the pollution (factoid). Obviously, liberals must be culled. Most of them are the prodigy of the lunatics released from the asylums in the late 60’s and early 70’s anyway (informed speculation).
The scary thing is that they have so many brainwashed and panicking cult members, you are likely going to see them start roaming neighborhoods and killing pets “to save the planet”.
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