This evening I was reading about a personal carbon allowance being suggested in some circles as a way to control our ability to put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The idea is that your activities would be monitored, and you would have to decide whether you are traveling or having a campfire. Once you have used up your allowance, you would be excluded from CO2 production until your allowance was renewed. I doubt I would be able to find any credible scientists that would endorse such stupidity. Life on earth is carbon based, and CO2 is how carbon is delivered. Plants need CO2. We have historically low levels on CO2 in the atmosphere --- roughly 400 parts per million. This is up from about 280 one hundred fifty years ago. When I consider that 150 ppm is as low as we can go before plant life is exterminated from the earth, I find the current demonization of CO2 sinister and asinine. There is a reason why plants anciently were larger than today’s fauna: today’s plants are starving for CO2. This is why greenhouse operators buy CO2 to inject into greenhouse air, to increase CO2 to about 1000 ppm.
WE NEED MORE CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE ATMOSPHERE. It isn’t toxic to breathe, at least not at any levels we could possibly widely distribute. You exhale air that is 40,000 ppm, and when you breathe in your exhalation because of the mask you are wearing…..well, you get the idea.
Instead of being led around by a little girl in pigtails, spouting what she has been told to say by those who are manipulating her, we need to use our brains. WE NEED PLANTS, AND PLANTS NEED CO2. Let’s allow them to have it and keep this planet alive. Our political leaders are unwittingly (I am trying to be charitable) coercing us to destroy life. I wonder why…..
