I wish this was satire but there are serious “experts” saying these things.
Besides the fact that 25-30% of US meat consumption is by pet dogs and cats, turns out their feces produce climate change effects too: Dog, Cat Feces Linked To Climate Change: UCLA Study – CBS Los Angeles
It is essential that we ban all pet dogs and cats worldwide, to save the planet.
Selfish pet owners are destroying the environment and the earth’s climate – It’s Just Science:
Put another way, American dogs and cats consume nearly 20 percent as many calories as Americans do – “on par with all the calories consumed by the population of France in a year.”
Part of the problem, Okin says, comes from more pet owners feeding their animals gourmet food products, including cuts of meat suitable for human consumption.
“A dog doesn’t need to eat steak,” Okin said. “A dog can eat things a human sincerely can’t. So what if we could turn some of that pet food into people chow?”
But when it comes to solution, Okin acknowledges the challenges of getting pet owners to look at their friends as destroyers of the environment.
Climate: Dogs and cats must be eliminated, pets banned – Coldstreams
The truth about cats’ and dogs’ environmental impact | UCLA
How The Pet Food Industry Is Fueling The Climate Crisis – Plant Based News
These posts I make on climate mitigation are to highlight that most of the climate mitigations proposed by “experts” and widely publicized in the media, are unlikely to have any political support and most are not sustainable (such as banning all aircraft flight for decades). Such proposals to fix the climate are unsupportable and likely have little or no effect on the climate – which implies that many are proposed for furthering other goals, unrelated to climate. Just 4% of current climate policies (for which we spend a lot of money) are now thought to have any impact: Many Climate Policies Struggle to Cut Emissions, Study Finds – The New York Times. And more here: Study Reveals Most Effective Climate Policies: Only 4% Significantly Cut Emissions – ScienceBlog.com
