Kill Your Pets — Save The Planet?

Terry O'Neill makes a great point in his National Post article. How long do you think will it take for the Gaia-worshiping freaks to add pets to the list of things that must be gone for the planet's sake?

According to a recent Ipsos Reid study, an estimated 56% of all Canadian households have at least one dog or cat. Similarly, a federal government report found that Canadians own eight million of the critters -- the vast majority of which, it must be stated, serve little practical purpose.

You know where this is going: Eco-conscious Canadians could lower their households' carbon footprint by eliminating, as it were, their pets' carbon paw-print.

An argument for this can be found in the provocatively entitled book, Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living, published earlier this year by Robert and Brenda Vale of New Zealand. The couple (who may well be under police protection by now, as far as I know), declare that simply feeding an average-sized dog has the ecofootprint of building and fueling a Toyota Land Cruiser. A cat's ecopaw-print is somewhat less: about the same as a Volkswagen Golf.

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Some of that is already there. Environmentalists are already warning us about the damage caused by cows that produce too much methane. It's just a matter of time until they start telling us that, for the sake of the wilderness, we better stop having pets.

Update as of Dec. 30: Just days after Terry O'Neill had published his article, "No apologies" posted a link to a book review by The American Spectator. The book, titled "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living", by Robert and Brenda Vale, claims just that - that the annual carbon pawprint of a typical dog is double that of a gas-guzzling SUV. And it recommends a vegetarian diet as a way to reduce the dog's carbon pawprint. Yep, that's a recommendation one would be eager to follow ...if he wants to end up just like the secret police agent Bretschneider - eaten by his own dogs.