Five Cartoon Characters with the Highest Carbon Footprint

The Smurfs

Carbon Footprint: 1.130 tonnes of CO2 (per average Smurf)

Even though the Smurfs were good friends with Mother Nature, these little blue pests were no friends of their environment. Having clearcut all the smurfberries in their Belgian forest to extinction, it’s clear their population got too big for their food supply.

With one old man and a common house cat as their only natural predators, the Smurfs vanished from existence during the Middle Ages. Also, how much pollution did Jokey generate with all those prank presents?

Popeye the Sailor Man

Carbon Footprint: 7.474 tonnes of CO2

Forget just for a moment how offensive a pipe-smoking, violent-tempered man he is and think of all those cans of (non-organic) spinach.

When he’s done chugging one he always tosses the empty over his shoulder. The sailor is obviously not recycling. Plus, his friend is constantly eating hamburgers, keeping the cattle industry churning and creating even more methane gas.

Wile E. Coyote

Carbon Footprint: 13.137 tonnes of CO2

The desert is literally strewn with empty ACME packaging and defective, non-biodegradable products. This isn’t counting all the rocket fuel expended in the attempts to catch one skinny bird.

Speed Racer

Carbon Footprint: 55.238 tonnes of CO2

What can I say? The guy is obsessed with driving his car…at full speed! Just how much fuel is he using on all those around-the-world races?

On a side note: dressing a chimpanzee like a candy striper is not only demeaning to the animal kingdom, it’s also just plain embarrassing.

Speed Buggy

Carbon Footprint: 184.498 tonnes of CO2

The dude’s a dune buggy. That drinks gasoline and oil. And drives all over the country solving crimes. Enough said.