Posted by
Bob Siegel on Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:00:30 PM
At first, the big contributors to Global Warming were car emissions. Years later, we were told that even putting up Christmas lights can cause Global Warming. Then, not too long ago, we were admonished to stop eating meat because that would mean breeding too many cows, and too many cows in the world (How shall I put this delicately?) emit a kind of gas of their own, not to mention all the resources needed to keep cattle alive.
Of course, these small matters pale by comparison to the most recent one. Hold on to your seats, PETA, because evidently, not all of your liberal friends are on the same page. Now, we are also discouraged from owning dogs and cats! According to a new book by Robert and Brenda Vale, Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide To Sustainable Living, good ol' Fido crunches down and laps up approximately 164KG of meat and 90KG of cereal products annually. The land needed to produce such food is 0.84 hectares. Meanwhile, constructing and driving some jeep type mobile in that same period of time requires only 0.41 hectares. I won't trouble you with the cat statistics, but trust me, they aren't much better. Sorry, Sylvester!
I'll bet you think you've heard everything now. I wish that were so. I wish we did not have any more of these self righteous, patronizing exhortations to look forward to, but we do and it will eventually spiral into the most chilling of all. Watch for these health care discussions and related Death Panel debates to somehow intersect with environmental concerns. I can just hear them now: "Do you know how much power and electricity is needed to keep a human being on that respirator? Sorry, Grandma, but you aren't the only one on the planet and we must look out for the village as a whole. There is a Global Warming crisis, after all."
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