Do you like to breath? I do. Do you like trees and enjoy their beauty? I do. So what’s the problem? The problem is that Obama’s EPA is considering a ruling that would declare Carbon Dioxide a “dangerous pollutant“. So what do you do with a dangerous pollutant? Well, you stop it, ban it, eliminate it so that it no longer harms us or the environment. No?
Carbon Dioxide as a Pollutant
The problem is that every time you exhale, part of what you are exhaling is carbon dioxide. So with every breath you are dangerously polluting the earth. You must be stopped. Your breathing must be banned. You must be eliminated.
What about all those dangerous trees and plants?
“When the sun is shining, plants perform photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into carbohydrates, releasing oxygen in the process.”
Trees and plants absorb carbon dioxide and convert it into oxygen. So if we eliminate this dangerous pollutant, wouldn’t it stand to reason that plants would die? If plants die, they don’t produce oxygen and people and other oxygen breathing life would die. What a great idea! Let’s ban a dangerous pollutant and in doing so, kill all life on earth as we know it. Why didn’t I think of that?
Global Warming, I mean, Global Climate Change
Since we have been seeing record cold temperatures across the country and it seems to snow everywhere Al Gore goes to speak (is GOD playing with him?), we hear less and less about global warming. Now it’s called global climate change, which in my observation happens every day, season, year for as long as I can remember and I expect that it will continue to do so.
The problem is that those who advocate the declaration of carbon dioxide as a pollutant are the same people that say it is settled science that the increase in temperatures, or as it is now called climate change, are man made. The truth is that there is significant evidence to the contrary that increases in carbon dioxide are not the cause of temperature increases, but the result of temperature increases caused by solar activity (see previous post).
Let Cooler Heads Prevail
I have no problem in working toward reducing the amount of anything that is a byproduct into the atmosphere. Recycling is good. Cutting back on energy waste is good. Renewable energy helps us get off foreign oil from despotic dictators which is good. But we have to avoid going around the bend and taking extreme positions that the very act of breathing results in a dangerous pollutant. Once you give that power to the government, more of you liberty vanishes and there is no telling how far they will go with it.
