Your dog is part of the climate change problem: ‘I can adopt 100 bunnies that will not be close to the emissions of a dog, because my dog is a carnivore’

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1. This is hilarious coming from Fortune magazine. Anything not to hold large corporations accountable?

2. This seems like an astroturf campaign designed to turn people off climate change. There are roughly a million things we have to address before the carbon footprints of our pet dogs are noticeable. An Epstein List-level attempt to distract people from the actual carbon emission criminals

3. Lions, and tigers, and bears, ^(oh my!) are carnivores too. Are they contributing to climate change more than massive industries pumping out enough greenhouse gases, as a matter of course, to facilitate another Holocaust?

4. Sure, blame it on the earliest domesticated animal in known history for totally causing climate change. Definitely not the oil industry.

5. Your topic makes it look like this is your opinion instead of an opinion that you are mocking. You might want to repost this with a different topic.

6. None of these matter unless corporations and governments solve their well known issues that they ignore for profit. Until they change, nothing else that is part of the problem actually matter.

7. >”because my dog is a carnivore”

   ***No, your dog isn’t.***

   Why can’t people get basic science & biology correct.

   Look up: Ominovrous vs Carnivorous.

   Then a simple search of: Are Dogs X? Are Cats X?

   And learn something about the differences before writing this crap.

   Complain about cats – science can easily argue carnivore obligate diet.

   But this is just plain WRONG.

8. Tonight on Fox News, “*Liberals demand we kill our puppies!*”

   Followed by, “*Up next, what caliber to use by KKKristi Noem.*”

   We see you, Fortune.

9. not my dog.

10. If dogs are a part of the problem, then so are people.

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12. the only people causing climate change are the 10 percent richest people on earth. the rest of us are their hostages

13. This is incredibly stupid.

14. No, your dog really is not part of the problem. This is how the climate movement gets in trouble. The goal of solving climate change is not to stop enjoying our lives (i.e. having kids, adopting pets, etc.). It’s to recognize we’ve created a problem. And we have the solutions to solve it. The problem of climate change is giant oil companies who won’t let us change full stop.

15. The 1% can kindly STFU.

16. No it’s actually the billionaires and largest corporations.

17. Industrial pollution is part of the climate change problem. Let’s deal with that first then we can talk about another living creature that’s on the planet.

18. Anything not to blame corporations and the super rich huh

19. “Your Money is part of the climate change problem”: “I can dump enough methane into a community to permanently shorten the residents lifespan but that would not compare to the impact of thousands of pounds of munitions being produced, transported, and dropped on starving kids”

    How many dogs do i need to own to match the Gronk data center?

    Fortune? How much Fortune should you give up to fight climate change…. all of it? half? any?

20. The dogs I’ve known have all loved carrots every bit as much as bunnies do.

21. Fortune is owned by a billionaire. Billionaires have the highest carbon footprint of any living creature on earth by a very long mile.

22. This was clearly written by a bunny.

23. Looking at the comments, this article seems to serve as a reminder to simply focus on the Energy Transition. Please check your other agenda items at the door. This is the big lever, and it’s absolutely achievable. Focus. It’s a very small handful of people that truly benefit from sticking with fossil fuels. These people lose their influence and a lot of this divisive crap goes with it.

24. Start holding large corps accountable and then we will talk about citizens

25. First the cows then the dogs get blamed. Never mind the billions of tons of co2 from refining and use of fossil fuels.

26. One jet trip from a billionaire is worth thousands of dogs lives. But yeah, people and their pets are problems, pfffffff

27. Dogs are omnivores. Cats on the other hand.. but seriously, is it too hard for Fortune to address the root of the problem and talk about how terrible the meat industry is for our climate? That’s what we should really be concerned about. Between clearing rainforests for herds of cattle, plowing prairies for cattle crop and destroying the ocean for some fish, the entire meat industry is directly effecting our climate. And it’s very solvable by promoting plant based diets both through public health policy and plant based agriculture subsidies.

28. Rich humans are a lot worse.

29. This is what happens when we don’t distinguish between subsistence and luxury emissions. It’s also what happens when we ignore the role of technology and differences in consumption habits, assuming that all individuals (in this car, dogs), have the same carbon footprint.

30. It’s all those private jets my doggo takes when she goes to the park! Bad girl!

31. Dog owners in shambles.

    🤣

32. Pathetic. Delusional. A Distraction.

    Humanity domesticated dogs therefore we are forever in debt to the species. It is our responsibility to take care of them.

33. Jokes on you Fortune Magazine, my dog eats greenhouse gases and poops sunshine.

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