Want to Stop Global Warming? Wear Animal Fur

Chadd De Las Casas
Animal fur has always been worn by humans - during the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras, it was worn for simple clothing. Humans were cold and wanted to stop being cold, and recognizing nature did not give them anything to ward off the elements, a bear's or deer's would do just fine. As clothes have been made out of other materials such as cotton, wool, and silk, some people, particularly the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, reasoning that animals should not have to die for human vanity when other forms of comfort and beauty already exist.

This clashes, however, with another new line of thinking. According to the global warming movement, Carbon emissions come from everywhere - including the air we breathe and the gas emissions of cows. Every time carbon dioxide is emitted, we lose just that much more time on the calendar - Al Gore even went so far as to promise a year our planet would turn into a great ball of fire.

Armed with the Nobel Peace Prize, this failed presidential candidate has made a huge case for cutting carbon emissions for the sake of the environment. Removing cars, many reason, would be a great way to cut back on the carbon emissions and stave off the global warming that man started back in the 14th century that thawed us out of the little ice age.

There's a great answer to this however - an answer that solves the environmental problem, as well as an economic one. If animals convert oxygen to carbon dioxide, they create a remarkable carbon footprint that they have no hopes of offsetting with the purchasing of trees. Therefore, rather than leave these little buggers to ruining our planet, the answer should appear obvious:

Fur coats.

Thousands of fur coats are sold every year - just imagine how many animals, as a result, are not damaging our atmosphere with carbon emissions? Just as importantly, however, the economic impact would be remarkable. With all the worries about jobs and spending, the number of new work opportunities that would come from the fur industry would be astounding. Between the hunters, the skinners, the machine sales, maintenance, shipping, crating, inspection, retail - the economic impact from a fur industry boom would be staggering.

But most importantly, it allows someone to offset their carbon footprint in the only way that really matters - by preventing something else from emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In many ways, it is the natural evolution of our paleolithic ancestors. Where nature armed the animals with the ability to warm us, likewise nature has armed the animals with our ability to protect our environment and warm ourselves.

Therefore the only logical answer to stop global warming and to cut carbon emissions is not to buy a tree, which will offset carbon regardless of your purchasing it, buy a fur coat, and ensure that something really won't be tarnishing our atmosphere with its gastric emissions and unnecessary breathing.

Published by Chadd De Las Casas

I was born in Valencia, California in 1987. It's ironic that I turned out to be a writer, since my first exposure to it was an essay about why I hate writing. I am also the owner of the Content Producers Wiki.  View profile

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  • ANTIFURCOATS3/17/2009

    this page is so unture. I wanted to throw up when i read it. who would believe this junk???? you animal hater!!! whos brain is even sick enough 2 even come up with garbage like this???????? It's ubsurd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    p.s. I AM VEGETARIAN!! SAVE THE ANIMALS!!!!!!

  • Chadd De Las Casas12/28/2007

    Oh I don't need any excuses to wear what I can rightfully claim as mine - it's just nice to know that I'm offsetting carbon without having to kill my offspring as you advocate.

  • MP12/26/2007

    How about promoting vegetarianism and putting an end to mass animal production which release carbon into the atmosphere. Also the amount of chemicals released into the atmosphere during the production of fur coats also contribute to GW. Why don't the humans take more responsibility and stop producing more humans which are basically carbon emmission tools their whole lives. Stop looking for lame excuses to wear something that's not rightfully yours.

  • Chadd De Las Casas11/30/2007

    Yeah that's cool, because I mean, advocating politically based ethnic cleansing is awesome and all that. Glad to see one's political ire is such that they'd advocate that level of absurdity.

  • Deez11/30/2007

    Ok, I'm fairly adept at killing things. Sounds good to me. I wonder however, how much I could reduce our carbon footprint by killing all the right wing religious nut bags. Hell, I could make one hell of a skin coat! I wouldn't even waste any of the hide being as I'm a great shot with a rifle and could take them all out with head shots;-)

  • Chadd De Las Casas11/29/2007

    MasterPo I already wrote an article on that, go look up my "Why Al Gore is Just the Head of a Pagan Religion Devoted to an Angry God"

  • Brant McLaughlin11/28/2007

    The British High Court recently found Gore's film contained at least nine errors and exaggerations so egregious they contradict the United Nations' claims on the subject (no mean feat, since the UN anchors the alarmist corner of the global scientific debate). And those errors weren't trivial. They were exactly the allegations Gore makes that turn global warming from an obscure scientific issue into a potential global crisis: that it is man-made, will cause flooding, is killing wildlife, and so on.____ {http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/article.cfm?artId=22355}

  • Bob P.11/28/2007

    Freaking great! Now where's my cat fur coat?????

  • Chadd De Las Casas11/28/2007

    No really AHD, just think about the SIDE benefit. With all those animals that aren't emitting carbon dioxide and ruining our atmosphere, the global temperatures will cool. Then, instead of being caught flat footed in the cold, we can gleefully bite our thumbs at nature, because we've already got all those coats. It's a win win scenario. Make it colder AND be prepared for said cold!

  • AHD11/28/2007

    I seriously hope you're joking. I have a novel idea: get rid of scumbags who think animal abuse is okay and let's have a line of human skin coats. I'd rock it.

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