Help! I’ve been the victim of misinformation! Could have been disinformation. Could be that dreaded combo of the two, dismisinformation. The story concerned plans by the World Economic Forum to eliminate pet ownership to reduce carbon paw prints and thus save the world. Sounds plausible, right? To paraphrase O’Brien in 1984, the future would be Greta Thunberg’s clog stomping on a puppy, forever.
The article looked legit. It even had a picture of the WEF founder, Klaus Schwab, who always looks like the result of entering “Lutheran Undertaker” and “Natty Golem” in an AI art-generator. When I tried to find the primary source for the article, however, nothing came up. Lots of stories amplifying the claim, but no link to anything solid. I have no doubt, though, that the WEF would like to do away with pet ownership as long as they get to keep Angora cats they can stroke in their volcano lairs while brushing the hairs off their gray Nehru jackets. Their entire purpose seems to be to oppose the things you like, because you are a mulish retrograde dolt stuck on 20th-century ideas.
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