First it was the cow farts. Now it’s dog “shit.” Moral of the story: eco crazies will never be satisfied until people start seeing climate change threats in their soup.
Leftist newspaper The Guardian published an April 9 story that reeked of being desperate for attention, even if that meant making its writers look like cats that have been overdosing on catnip. “Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds,” read the headline coughed up like a hairball from science writer Donna Lu.
The syntax read like a Babylon Bee special, “An Australian review of existing studies has argued that ‘the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more insidious, and more concerning than is generally recognised.”
The equally nutty outlet Mother Jones reposted Lu’s story and made dogs out to be the antagonists of the supposed climate war in its re-written headline: “Bad News for Man’s Best Friend: Dogs Are Environmental Villains.” Talk about screwing the pooch.
One of the so-called threats highlighted by Lu channeled the cow fart doom mongering perpetuated by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY): “Dog feces can also leave scent traces and affect soil chemistry and plant growth.”
While Lu argued that “the environmental impact of cats is well known,” she whined that the supposedly more problematic climate footprint of “pet dogs has been poorly acknowledged, the researchers said.” She went even further, going as far as to insult dog owners in the process: “In the review, the researchers attributed the extent of the environmental impacts to the sheer number of dogs globally, as well as ‘the lax or uninformed behaviour of dog owners.’” “‘If nothing else, pick up your own dog shit,’” Curtin University Professor Bill Bateman quipped to Lu.
But it just got worse. Lu then expanded her insane thesis to condemn pets writ large:
The carbon footprint of pets is also significant. A 2020 study found the dry pet food industry had an environmental footprint of around twice the land area of the UK, with greenhouse gas emissions – 56 to 151 Mt CO2 – equivalent to the 60th highest-emitting country.
This pathetic excuse for a news item isn’t even fit to line the bottom of a litter box.
