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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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Only the ones who stay out of my house and aren’t around to eat my eyes after I die
( I actually love cats, and dogs )
It’s time to start using personal pets as feed for zoo animals like Denmark.
The riding team? She have some kind of fartless horse?
They do not really like to have people either.
The people are cancer on the pristine environment.
Get rid of at least 90% of the people
500 millions of people remining, max!
yes
no more dogs
and its time to outlaw carbonated beverages
noncarbonated beer and soda only
“...I think they just want people to be miserable, in general...”
Yep. They, themselves, are wretched and miserable with life and identify anything that might change their situation as “the enemy”. They cannot stand the fact that there are mnay other people that are not that way, and it royally pisses em off...jealousy, hatred, etc. Therefore, they make it their life’s goal to ensure everyone is as wretched and miserable as they are, if not worse. THAT is what makes em happy and drives them to what they are amongst us. They really do need to be in an asylum and not out and about in society spreading their vile BS.
“including avoiding plane flights”
…this is so absurdly stupid I stopped reading.
I am tired of hearing about the religion of “climate change.” My impression is that it’s on life support. There are the true believers constantly writing or consuming climate change content, but the greater bulk of society has moved on. Society has passed through the rainbow world, the trans insanity and is now entering saner spaces. I think that Trump is one aspect of this transition rather than an actual cause. Trump spotted the wave and surfed it into office. Surprisingly, the transition to sanity was caused by the extreme success of the previous inanities being so successful they finally woke the slowly simmering frog of society and it jumped out of the pot to save itself.
Many leftists refuse to have children, just to reduce the population and save the Earth!
Believe me, I met few!
"While studying journalism at Washington and Lee University and in graduate school at the University of Southern California...."
( snip "Wells thought she would become an author, but midway through her senior year of high school she shifted her focus to journalism, and W&L’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."
Caleigh Wells ’17 Found Her Calling in Climate Reporting The Columns ( Washington and Lee University ), April 17, 2024.
Keep your dog.
Let the ASSociated Press go find some other "master."
Oh just F off!
So done with these asshats...
Every dog needs to know—the leftists have declared war on you.
Hint: They want to urinate on your territory!
What utter nonsense. Thanks for posting more crap so we can smell it.
If women can’t have their cats, they may go back to having babies.
Unmitigated Horses**t
Caleigh also wrote this fascination article for the AP-
“Why more women are switching to reusable menstrual products”
You can’t make this stuff up.
Do You Trust Them?
My trust of cats is somewhat reciprocal... some cats I trust implicitly, others not at all. To be fair, I feel the same way about dogs.
I don't think I trust Caleigh Wells at all, though.
You are correct sir - no scientific background, just woke journalism.
Yup.
Why more women are switching to reusable menstrual products Caleigh Wells, AP, August 11, 2025
Been scribbling for AP since June of this year....
Or as I sometimes refer to them, the Eh? Pee!
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