Animal Cruelty And Dog Fighting - The Model for Addressing Environmental Degradation and Climate Change?

Opposing animal cruelty and dog fighting is pretty straightforward and noncontroversial. There is a wide consensus that these are bad things and something should be done about it. Now compare this to climate change, where there is a significant number of people that do not believe human activity is changing the climate. Even if 100 per cent of the population agrees that climate change is a problem, does that mean anything will change for the better?

Not if animal cruelty and dog fighting are the example. Even though there is a wide consensus that animal cruelty and dog fighting are bad, this has not prevented animal cruelty from being manipulated, exploited, and not appropriately addressed.

Talk, profit, exploit and/or join the emotive crowd, never having to do anything of substance is the longstanding approach to animal cruelty and dog fighting.

If environmental degradation, not just climate change, is ever to be meaningfully addressed, there is not much hope if animal cruelty and dog fighting serves as the model.