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Climate Activists Really Don’t Want You To Have A Dog
Daily Wire ^ | By Jayden Jelso

Posted on 06/27/2025 5:36:19 PM PDT by NoLibZone

Climate change activists are now arguing that simply owning a dog can increase a person’s carbon footprint.

A finding published in PNAS Nexus says that, supposedly, people overestimate the climate benefits of activities like recycling or switching light bulbs. At the same time, they underestimate other beneficial impacts, such as taking fewer flights.

“We think, ‘I have to recycle this and it will help the planet,’” Madalina Vlasceanu, an assistant professor of environmental social sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, told the Greater Good Magazine. “It’s less likely you will hear that if you fly less, that’s the best you can possibly do, lifestyle-wise.” Another “underestimated” benefit is cutting back on beef intake. According to Earth.org, pets’ meat consumption accounts for 64 million tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. That adds up to 25-30% of the environmental impact of meat intake. In a list of ideas on how to reduce one’s carbon footprint that includes switching to public transport and eating poultry instead of beef, Greater Good Magazine suggested people “opt out of getting a dog.”


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: carbonpropaganda; climatehoax; fakescience; parallel2islam
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Interesting how liberal causes always parallel the religion of Islam
1 posted on 06/27/2025 5:36:19 PM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

Thats ok.

I have 2.


2 posted on 06/27/2025 5:37:33 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: NoLibZone

Just got a puppy. Sue me.


3 posted on 06/27/2025 5:38:04 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: NoLibZone

Next, it will be ‘children’ they describe as the undesired luxury that ‘hurts the environment’. It’s coming.


4 posted on 06/27/2025 5:38:51 PM PDT by lee martell
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My dog's job is to keep me alive while I do environmental restoration work bent over weeding exotics with a sign on my a$$ that says "Food."

They can go to hell.

5 posted on 06/27/2025 5:40:06 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: NoLibZone

I haven’t thought of it that way.

Time for a good, smart and trainable dog for “safety.”

.


6 posted on 06/27/2025 5:40:22 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: NoLibZone

NAZIs didn’t like people keeping dogs either.

They want the people frightened and defenseless.


7 posted on 06/27/2025 5:41:06 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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Interesting how liberal causes always parallel the religion of Islam

That was my first thought as well.

8 posted on 06/27/2025 5:41:39 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: NoLibZone

Sic ‘em Snoopy!


9 posted on 06/27/2025 5:41:44 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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When a person owns a dog, leftists attribute the increased carbon footprint to the human, even though the dog is a living creature, but when a dirt bag shoots a citizen, they blame the inanimate gun.


10 posted on 06/27/2025 5:43:58 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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‘Greater Good Magazine’

How very like the totalitarians they are.


11 posted on 06/27/2025 5:44:17 PM PDT by A strike (Make RealID required for voting )
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They should glue their hands to pitbulls in protest.


12 posted on 06/27/2025 5:44:56 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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I have thought that they should take away pets before the combustion engine.


13 posted on 06/27/2025 5:46:36 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: NoLibZone

It is a draw ... my dog doesn’t like climate activiists.


14 posted on 06/27/2025 5:50:30 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: NoLibZone

Remember - all jet flights are bad unless they are a private jet used by a left wing billionaire.


15 posted on 06/27/2025 5:50:58 PM PDT by PAR35
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Going after cows doesn’t bother a lot of people.

Going after their PETS???????

They’re REALLY pushing their luck.


16 posted on 06/27/2025 5:51:02 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: NoLibZone

A house with a dog is a happier home.


17 posted on 06/27/2025 5:51:28 PM PDT by circlecity
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Heck. Not even children.

They don’t even want people alive.

Except for themselves, of course.


18 posted on 06/27/2025 5:51:44 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: NoLibZone

Their “President”, Joe Pedo, just imported 21 million freeloaders from below the border into America. I don’t need those maggots whining to me about Carbon Footprints. I’ll put my carbon boot up their carbon ying yangs.


19 posted on 06/27/2025 5:51:47 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: NoLibZone

Dog is an ally. Plain and simple.


20 posted on 06/27/2025 5:54:49 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Prayers answered!)
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