Time to eat your pets.

It’s a freakonomics-type, not-what-you’d-expect thing. Apparently, some researchers from New Zealand came out with a study a couple of years ago that claimed that a mid-size dog was responsible for as much of a carbon footprint as an SUV. Google search this set of terms {dog carbon footprint SUV} (no quotes); there are over 200,000 results.

There’s even a book, "Time to Eat the Dog, the Real Guide to Sustainable Living," by Robert and Brenda Vale. NOT sold on Amazon, oddly enough.

Just doing that google search will consume energy, have a carbon footprint, as will clicking this link about the energy cost of doing google searches.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7823387.stm

I saw another surprise recently. Most of the “DVRs, cable set-top boxes, and other pay-TV boxes” in the US are very energy-inefficient and use more electricity than an energy-star type refrigerator.

http://news.consumerreports.org/electronics/2011/06/nrdc-set-top-boxes-are-greedy-for-electricity.html

To save electricity, many other countries have required that rooms bedrooms and living rooms be designed with a master off/on switch.

Basically, it causes all of the electronic stuff to be shut off when you turn off the lights.

...rooms like kitchens are wired the old way, so things like refrigerators continue to get power.

I have a lot of pets because I'm not squeezing out a bajillion kids. Plus, if you rescue then you're saving a life that's already here instead of paying some puppy mill to overbreed dogs or cats.

Environmental problems are invariably tracked to human activity, whether its driving SUVs, farming techniques or blogging on Brooklynian. Using Armchair Warrior's logic, we should all do the Jim Jones.

Because first world humans create most of the world's pollution, it is only sensible that we eat the first world's young.

(um, not really)