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Save the Planet, Eat Your Dog
R3d M3rcury writes "New Zealand's Dominion Post reports on a new book just released, Time to Eat the Dog: The real guide to sustainable living. In this book, they compare the environmental footprint of our housepets to other things that we own. Like that German Shepherd? It consumes more resources than two Toyota SUVs. Cats are a little less than a Volkswagen Golf. Two hamsters are about the same as a plasma TV. Their suggestions? Chickens, rabbits, and pigs. But only if you eat them."
Most ppl above me seem to be freaking out like hicks thinking the government is coming to take their guns. Its a joke guys. Its kind of interesting but they can't srsly suggest eating our pets.
What about all the dog poop in public areas where my child has to watch out for when he plays? This runs off into the storm drains and in to the ocean which means temporary closure of our beaches? I think this is called pollution.
I was actually agreeing with what you were saying ... up until you started going all population control.
I didn't go all population control on anyone. I suggested self regulation if you actually want to do something for the environment. I'm not suggesting the same incompetent and greedy as fuck governments and corporations be put in charge of limiting population. That would not end well.
The main reason that population control goes all wacky, is when you run the numbers, EVERY man, woman and child could live in the state of Texas, with NOBODY else on the planet ... and that is with everyone having about 1200 sq ft around them. Start grouping people into families, and the size needed to hold everyone gets smaller. Now, just start going up ... you get the picture.
It's not about real-estate. There's huge enough sections of the planet unpopulated as it is. We don't need 6.5 BILLION humans alive to maintain a social structure. We could get by with a tenth of that, or a hundredth, and perhaps people wouldn't starve or kill each other over land.
Also, how many insects are around? They don't have any "modern technology" and yet "at any time, it is estimated that there are some 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive." Your argument that humans are overpopulated just doesn't hold water.
Fuck me, are you being obtuse on purpose? Insects breed even more prolifically but their footprint compared to a human being is tiny. They don't exactly burn coal to drive hundreds of kilometers now do they? This is possibly the stupidest extension or misrepresentation of an analogy of mine I've seen here. That's really saying something.
However, if you continue to feel that humans are overpopulating the Earth, please lead the way in reducing the population instead of telling everyone else what they should do.
I don't plan on having more than 2 children. I am no more telling people what they should do than the parent article which suggests you eat your dog. In contrast my suggestion of not breeding like a rabbit is moderate. But feel free to twist it as stupidly as you possibly can. I bet you're one of these religious nut jobs that has a family of 12 because god told him contraception is sinful.
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