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Posted on 08/20/2025 4:26:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It turns out many Americans aren’t great at identifying which personal decisions contribute most to climate change.
A study recently published found that when asked to rank actions, such as swapping a car that uses gasoline for an electric one, carpooling or reducing food waste, participants weren’t very accurate when assessing how much those actions contributed to climate change.
The top three individual actions that help the climate, including avoiding plane flights, choosing not to get a dog and using renewable electricity, were also the three that participants underestimated the most. Meanwhile, the lowest-impact actions were changing to more efficient appliances and swapping out light bulbs, recycling, and using less energy on washing clothes. Those were three of the top four overestimated actions in the report.
Dogs are big meat eaters, and meat is a significant contributor to climate change. That is because many of the farm animals, which will become food, release methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. Beef is especially impactful, in part because around the world cattle are often raised on land that was illegally deforested. Since trees absorb carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas, cutting them to then raise cattle is a double whammy.
“People just don’t associate pets with carbon emissions. That link is not clear in people’s minds,” Zhao said.
Not all pets are the same, however. Zhao owns a dog and three rabbits.
“I can adopt 100 bunnies that will not be close to the emissions of a dog, because my dog is a carnivore,” she said.
The owner of a meat-eating pet can lower their impact by looking for food made from sources other than beef. Zhao, for example, tries to minimize her dog’s carbon footprint by feeding her less carbon-intensive protein sources, including seafood and turkey.
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The leftists continue their war against dogs.
I think they just want people to be miserable, in general.
Left is gonna lose the libtard cat ladies if they keep this pet shaming crap up
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We’ll kill ‘climate scientists’ way before anything will happen to our fur buddies (who are superior to leftists in every way). Await your fear, leftists, because it IS coming.
Maybe fraudci can sell a vax to cure pets of farting and exhaling !
All based on fake science and false premises.
Tell us, CALEIGH WELLS, Climate choices reporter, what is your scientific background to make these assertive statements and judgements as to what human activities makes major effects on climate?
I expect the answer is none, and she’s yet another university brainwashed leftist without much knowledge or thinking of her own.
They are miserable people, theselves. If you can’t love dogs or at least admit there positive qualities you are not human.
Two PhDs in Self-loathing.
These kinds of people have way too much time on their hands.
Cats...
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Do You Trust Them?
The National Academy of Sinuses are a nasty, nosey bunch of commie piggies without a clue or a real job. They need to get real jobs.
First they came for the children (don’t have them or kill them before birth), then the cows (eat bugs instead), then the dogs (getting closer to you), then you (euthanasia).
Demonic.
“The leftists continue their war against dogs.”
Their war is against AMERICANS and the AMERICAN LIFESTYLE, dogs are only a very small part of it.
And the soon our side understands that, the sooner we’ll be capable of effectively stopping them. Right now, we’re still flailing around, thinking Leftists are well-meaning, but stupid and just need some ‘guidance’ to see the light. Many, probably most, on our side simply cannot accept the fact that these are EVIL PEOPLE, regardless of of the fact that most of their leaders were born here.
If we can FINALLY accep the truth about Leftists, we’ll defeat them, if not they’ll silence us and send the non-compliant among us to jail, as they’re now doing in Europe.
Lying scum. Globalists plan to criminalize commercial air travel.
Blast from the past lol! I remember about 15 years ago everyday there was an article by some chick with a premise such as “care about climate change? Better think twice about that asparagus!”
Leftist are truly insane. They are very much like a religious cult.
can we just kill all the pit bulls please?
The sci-fi book, “A boy and his dog “ come to mind. This chick and the two she quotes in the article are WAY less important to me than my dog.
About what you’d expect:
Caleigh Wells thought she would become an author, but midway through her senior year of high school she shifted her focus to journalism, and Washington & Lee’s accredited journalism department pulled her to Lexington. She triple-majored in journalism, sociology and politics and minored in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. She also helped restart a chapter of service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, sang in General Admissions for two years and competed on the W&L riding team, where she was on the winning 2014 Old Dominion Athletic Conference Championships team and co-captained her final two years.
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