ronbailey:

rexbarrett:

Your dog destroys the environment faster than my Land Cruiser does. Your argument is invalid.

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Dude, I hope you were just being snarky here… this chart is moronic.  A dog is a living, breathing creature that has a certain rightful claim to the resources it consumes; the SUV is an over-priced machine with absolutely no intrinsically redeeming value outside of stroking the ego of the chump that pays the loan.

This chart fails to mention that, whether a dog happens to be a pet or not, it will still exist in the world, and that owning them as pets actually controls their population.  There would be much more damage done if every pet dog had instead grown up feral.  SUVs don’t reproduce.

I also find it revealing that the chart stops with a toyota land cruiser, as if it was the most guzzeling of SUVs.  Where’s the F150 and the Hummer?  This from a magazine that once proclaimed “Darwin was Wrong”.