Dogs consume 10% of our meat production. The counter argument is well they only consume our scraps and make sure we otherwise don’t waste food. The counter to the counter is: dog food is no longer made largely from scraps but even a mainline blend like caesars has gone prime cut, the dog population has increased as people have moved away from child rearing which just substitutes a different mouth for another, and that’s before we get to even the enormous amounts of plastic junk they consume that powers stores like petco. It wouldn’t be a problem if people treated them like semi feral animals but the trend has been to increasingly treat them like children. I posted an article on the subject when the climate change discussion last reared it’s head.I understand the benefits of atomic power, GMO food, less air travel and eating less meat. Those are all serious proposals.
How did you conclude that killing dogs and banning hot showers are equally part of the solution? That sounds like more bull crap than actual numbers.
ill concede I’m not being totally accurate on showers. It’s the smaller part of the problem which is gas heating in the northern part of the world. The problem with that is there’s not much we can do about it without having people freeze to death and we have done a lot already to switch to cleaner gases. But there is one small thing we could do even though it’s a fraction of the problem: the water heaters used in certain countries like the us uk and Canada. We have these huge water heaters that are constantly kept warm by burning gas. Even though the savings is fractional, it would be very real if we at a minimum switch to single use, heat before you use small tanks like in Italy and Spain. Having spent a year in Spain in my youth using such water heaters…I can tell you I missed the long American shower. But as they say small things add up and the problem is of such magnitude that if we wanted to keep the heating for the north, getting rid of long showers is one way to save