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, becau...
“People just don’t associate pets with carbon emissions. That link is not clear in people’s minds,” says Jiaying Zhao, who teaches psychology and sustainability at the University of British Columbia.
That is very insightful, and while I had never thought of it that way, it resonates as true. The use of dogs as working animals is permitted, if they must but the animals are used as tools, not sentient beings.
Loathsome.