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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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I want you Freepers to do your patriotic duty ... and kill your dog ... and eat him.

1 posted on 11/20/2014 11:01:04 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Aren’t dogs a delicacy in China?


2 posted on 11/20/2014 11:02:36 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
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To: Zakeet

Come for my dogs,there will be loss of life.


3 posted on 11/20/2014 11:02:41 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Zakeet

4 posted on 11/20/2014 11:03:50 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: 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.

The obvious thing to do, then, is to just kill everybody in the US and China.

5 posted on 11/20/2014 11:04:57 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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But think of how pet ownership helps the economy and reduces human medical costs!


6 posted on 11/20/2014 11:05:22 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: Zakeet
Waiting for the ecoweenies to pop up.


7 posted on 11/20/2014 11:05:31 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Zakeet

Muslims HATE dogs... just sayin’


8 posted on 11/20/2014 11:05:39 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Zakeet

Leave my dog alone.


9 posted on 11/20/2014 11:09:31 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Zakeet

Dogs need to have Constitutional protections - free speech et.al.


10 posted on 11/20/2014 11:10:04 AM PST by Paladin2
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My dogs’ lives are worth more than all the liberals’ lives put together.


11 posted on 11/20/2014 11:16:46 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Zakeet
What a load of BULLSH!T.
12 posted on 11/20/2014 11:16:49 AM PST by GoldenPup
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This is the work of an 'Alternet' author, an obvious moonbat. All of his stories are full of gloom and doom and why you're primarily the one at fault.

Alternet, if you didn't know, is a sensationalist left wing blogsite that's comparable to the 'right-wing' website 'World Net Daily': Meaning, just nothing but pure nuttery in every story. Two departing crazy trains on the left and right platforms, destination Kooksville. ALLLL Aboard!

Anyone relating a story that they'd read on Alternet or World Net Daily in casual conversation in the company of decent people would identify themselves as a loon in need of shunning, and for good reason.

13 posted on 11/20/2014 11:21:35 AM PST by The KG9 Kid
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Molon Dogee


14 posted on 11/20/2014 11:22:02 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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OMG! They’re worse than evil SUV’s!


15 posted on 11/20/2014 11:24:56 AM PST by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: Zakeet

Don’t eat meat, don’t have a drink, don’t use quality light bulbs, don’t run your air conditioning, don’t drive your car, don’t have a pet.

Liberals hate people, so they try to ban or hamper everything that brings some joy (to normal people; buggery, baby-killing, race-hatred and atheism bring joy to liberals) This global warm, uh, climate change fiction is great for them in that they can say everything is a cause of it.


16 posted on 11/20/2014 11:26:48 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Farmer Dean

Pets were killed by the millions during Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s . . . sort of an encore for the millions of people whom the ChiComs killed in the decade earlier.


17 posted on 11/20/2014 11:28:45 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Go to the Salon link and read the comments. I love to read moonbat libs fighting with each other. More fun than I have had in a long time


18 posted on 11/20/2014 11:32:08 AM PST by acsrp38 (Obama lied, people died, VA)
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To: Zakeet

Muslims are eco-friendly! !

Doesn’t Congress have to ratify this???


19 posted on 11/20/2014 11:35:46 AM PST by ZULU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qLDFiQcjlY Impeach Obama in 2015 !!!)
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To: Zakeet

I would kill the lib and let my dog feast.


20 posted on 11/20/2014 11:37:10 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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