1 dog = 2 Landcruisers

[Fort Jefferson]

So who saw QI last week?

It seems a dog has the same carbon foot print as 2 Toyota Landcruisers,
and thats not even a big dog.

So next time you see someone in a Prius with a dog, tell them if they shoot the dog, they could drive a proper car.

[TheLurker]

Wondered if this would crop up on here!

[jagracer]

Fort Jefferson said:

So who saw QI last week?

It seems a dog has the same carbon foot print as 2 Toyota Landcruisers,
and thats not even a big dog.

So next time you see someone in a Prius with a dog, tell them if they shoot the dog, they could drive a proper car.

Sorry to be a PH pedant but they could drive two proper cars.

[Shuvi Tupya]

Why do dogs have such big carbon footprints??

Or is that cars have small carbon footprints in comparison to most living things?

[durbster]

Shuvi Tupya said:

Or is that cars have small carbon footprints in comparison to most living things?

Bingo.

[Shuvi Tupya]

durbster said:

Shuvi Tupya said:

Or is that cars have small carbon footprints in comparison to most living things?

Bingo.

So if we all drove our cars into the sea and rode horses around, there would a hell of a lot more 'deadly co2' in the air?

Sweet

[marshalla]

doogz said:

Are trips out to the park and whatnot in the Landcruiser part of the Dog's footprint? What does a dog's carbon footpring actually comprise?

carbon PAWprint please.

[J4CKO]

I dont think it adds up, does it account for the extraction of the materials to make the car, painting it, shipping it and all the other stuff it needs like oil ? to make a Dog it just needs two dogs getting joggy, not 2.5 tonnes of steel, plastic and rubber. Does Dog food involve Oil Sands, Oil Spills and all that ?

It doesnt take accoujnt of people feeding their Dogs scraps or anything like that either or that most of pet food is the stuff left over from human consumption that would otherwise be binned (or used in inner city fried Chicken places).

[skodamanpat]

I must be running on full fat leaded then with three hounds and none of them under 30kg. Mind you any of them could beat just about anything road legal to 40 mph

Edited by skodamanpat on Wednesday 17th November 18:24

[mike62]

J4CKO said:

I dont think it adds up, does it account for the extraction of the materials to make the car, painting it, shipping it and all the other stuff it needs like oil ? to make a Dog it just needs two dogs getting joggy, not 2.5 tonnes of steel, plastic and rubber. Does Dog food involve Oil Sands, Oil Spills and all that ?

It doesnt take accoujnt of people feeding their Dogs scraps or anything like that either or that most of pet food is the stuff left over from human consumption that would otherwise be binned (or used in inner city fried Chicken places).

According to QI, it included the production and running of the car.

The argument was, I believe, that the meat required throughout the dog's lifetime was the major factor.

[durbster]

Shuvi Tupya said:

durbster said:

Shuvi Tupya said:

Or is that cars have small carbon footprints in comparison to most living things?

Bingo.

So if we all drove our cars into the sea and rode horses around, there would a hell of a lot more 'deadly co2' in the air?

Sweet

Sort of

I think it's a wider point about the amount of polluting things that are required to look after animals (or children - or both) such as going to the shops to buy their food, taking them to the vets and the knock-on effect of that (e.g. production and delivery of medicines).

So the daily acts of keeping it fed, watered, exercised and alive all have a knock-on impact on the environment, and the sum of those over a dog's lifetime is far greater than the production of a car.

Step that up to children and the numbers are even greater. Just think of the fuel cost of taking a kid to and from school every day for their entire education, for example.

[J4CKO]

So if there were no people or other animals, the environment would be ok ?

I will hang on after everyone else has gone just to keep an eye on it, leave me your keys.