Dog insurer: 'jumping, running, slipping, tripping, playing' not covered (2016)

Re:Dog insurer: 'jumping, running, slipping, tripping, playi... by 11235813213455 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @10:48AM (#21884575)

There are probably around 1 billion domestic pets overall, since there are close to 8 billion individuals, mostly from developed countries, where the culture is sadly to have pets

I don't know about the population of feral 'pets', it can makes sense that it's even larger

Anyway both are significantly damaging for different reasons (feral: ecosystem damages and native species reduction, domestic: they are part of the (over)consumerism system, so they virtually increase the human population)

How to cut down both of them? first starting with domestic pets which is the source of the problem, over-consumerism in general

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Re:Dog insurer: 'jumping, running, slipping, tripping, playi... by NeedMoreTea on Thursday December 26, 2019 @11:13AM (#21884747)

From a fast skim of Wikipedia that estimate seems to be overstating it by 2-4x

There are going to be a dozen more urgent sources of emissions, environmental damage etc before we start restricting pets. Humans in the developed world are emitting vastly more than their pet -- first discourage the humans over breeding, outlaw religious edicts that make a stand against common sense contraception, etc. Constrain fossil fuel use, consumerism, capitalism.

Thus far it looks like there is little to no chance of any of that happening, so a campaign about pets, carrier bags or drinking straws is rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic.

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