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The surprisingly large carbon paw print of your beloved pet (Libs want you to kill your dog alert)
Salon ^ | November 20, 2014 | Larry Schwartz

Posted on 11/20/2014 11:01:04 AM PST by Zakeet

Last week President Obama announced a historic climate change agreement with Chinese president Xi Jinping. Aimed at drastically curtailing carbon emissions into the atmosphere, the goal is to rein in the carbon footprints of the planet’s two major polluters, the U.S. and China.

I wonder if the agreement contains anything about carbon paw prints. While humans and their ravenous appetite for growth remain the primary drivers of climate change and the accompanying specter of climate catastrophe, pets have a surprising negative impact of their own. Bowser and Mittens may be your best friends, but with around one billion pet dogs and cats in the world, eating billions of pounds of canned meat a year producing half a billion pounds of waste daily, Mother Nature might just consider them to be—after humans—Public Enemy Number Two.

Cats and dogs eat meat-based diets, and we all know that is the most energy intensive diet there is. Then there is the staggering amount of bacteria-laden fecal material these beloved creatures produce. American dogs alone are responsible for 10 million tons of waste a year. Can anything be done to make our pets more planet-friendly?

The Carbon Paw Print

You consider yourself an environmentalist and are considering ditching that gas-guzzling SUV you bought a few years ago in order to reduce your carbon footprint. You might want to think of ditching Bowser instead. An average-sized dog consumes about 360 pounds of meat in a year and about 210 pounds of cereal. Taking into account the amount of land it takes to generate that amount of food and the energy used, that makes your dog quite the carbon hound.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; dogs; environment; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; popefrancis; romancatholicism
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To: GladesGuru

Sounds like a great investment.

We have two neighbors with good watch dogs. One dog is a huge great Dane, and the other is a little Mexican Chiwaalla, which thinks it is a Great Dane.

Both dogs protect their owners and properties and lend an umbrella over our properties.

Great investments for the dog owners and neighbors like us.


41 posted on 11/20/2014 1:33:24 PM PST by Grampa Dave (The Democrats, who run America are too old, too rich, and too very/very white elitist losers!.)
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To: tbw2
Probably because of the ten-plus years of crosspostings of breathless WND "exclusives" on FR -- many of which that turned out to be utter nonsense or not exclusive at all.

The left has got their screwball journalism sites, the right has ours. Every once in awhile they duke it out with each other on the Internet, like the way Salon often does against WND and vice versa.

42 posted on 11/20/2014 1:35:21 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: Grampa Dave

Our ‘organic dogs’ are ‘early warning’, and target acquisition’ systems for the Telescopic Dogs which bark here and bite over yonder.

;-)


43 posted on 11/20/2014 1:47:59 PM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Zakeet

Touch my dog, and bring down a world of hurt on yourself.


44 posted on 11/20/2014 2:40:03 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Zakeet

I reckon my cats have a “footprint,” and it is without a doubt full of carbon. This material reminds me of what comes out of Obamalamadingdong’s mouth.


45 posted on 11/20/2014 3:25:45 PM PST by West Texas Chuck (STOP CO2 EMISSIONS NOW BEFORE GLOBAL WARMING FREEZES US ALL TO DEATH!!!)
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To: KeyLargo
Unfortunately, the paid enviros aren't saying very much about the slaughter of birds like eagles and other protected birds.

A little side bar re your great photo. If that guy, you, I or even a native American took 1 feather from that dead eagle, we could go to jail and get a big fine. Apparently, it is okay for the wind farms to slaughter eagles and other protective birds, but illegal to take a single feather.

46 posted on 11/21/2014 7:39:39 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The Democrats, who run America are too old, too rich, and too very/very white elitist losers!.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Note: this topic is from 11/20/2014. Thanks Zakeet.

47 posted on 06/20/2015 11:38:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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