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Every human exhales about a half ton of CO2 per year. How would a $50 per year breathing license fit into your plan?
by tengbretson 7y ago
Every human exhales about a half ton of CO2 per year. How would a $50 per year breathing license fit into your plan?
- dboreham 7y agoMostly not from fossil sources though.
- rndmize 7y agoThe CO2 exhaled by humans was already in the air when they inhaled. Conflating that with CO2 actively created from industrial processes is disingenuous at best.
- etatoby 7y agoIt was definitely not. It was in the food we interested. Trees and other plants take carbon from air, energy from the sub, and use it to build themselves. We take carbon from them and put it back into the air, using the excess energy to move and think.
- ryanmercer 7y ago>It was in the food Which was in the air in the past few months to handful of years depending on how fresh the food is and what it is (plant, animal). Unlike the CO2 from fossil fuels which was sequestered for millions of years. And had that not been harvested for food, it would have sat their being decomposed in a field somewhere returning that carbon right back into the atmosphere via animals and bacteria snacking on it as they broke it down.
- AstralStorm 7y agoActually even worse as it would get converted into much more potent GHG - mostly methane. The oil and coal only happen when organic matter is subjected to pressure and non-porous geological layers. Otherwise you get peat fields and those emit methane.
- 24gttghh 7y agoI'm pretty sure we can simply not put a price on our own exhaling. It doesn't have to be like (the opposite I guess) of Total Recall.
- tim333 7y agoTaxes on the food we convert probably exceed $50 already. I get you can't account for every little thing but approximately right may be better than doing nothing.