If goldfish have the eco-finprint of two cell phones, what kind of carbon footprint must a deer have? Those who are agonizing over the thinning of deer herds in Durham’s Duke Forest might take some solace in the fact that the more deer we kill, the smaller will be their carbon footprint.
After all, if a large dog has the carbon footprint of an SUV, and a cat’s carbon footprint equals a VW, what must be the footprint of the hundreds of bounding, mooching, flatulating deer in Duke Park? After all, they are, like cattle, ruminants. And we all know from our eco-bibles that cows are going to be the death of Mother Earth due to their flatulating and their burping, so a deer has to be producing harmful carbon-filled gases too, right?
So, let the bow hunters, the black powder hunters and any other kind of hunters help thin the herd. Our planet will thank them.
