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Laterally, the amount of CO2 my existence releases each year is of absolutely no consequence to the global environment. The amount of CO2 that 1Bn others like m
by detritus 5y ago
Laterally, the amount of CO2 my existence releases each year is of absolutely no consequence to the global environment. The amount of CO2 that 1Bn others like me - or 8.5Bn if overall living standards increase, however?
- dahart 5y agoThe main argument is that we eat all the C02 that we breathe out, and plants re-consume that C02, so it’s in balance, whereas with oil we are releasing CO2 that we can’t replace. Aside from that, I took the first couple of sources I found googling as roughly accurate, and I see estimates of about 35B-45B tons total C02, where around 3B-3.5B might come from 8B humans breathing. So assuming those numbers are anything close to accurate, we are perhaps slightly less than 10%.
- detritus 5y agoUnfortunately, my existence - and that of the all the other comfortable people in the developed world, yourself too, I imagine - also includes some % responsibility of the oil consumption you refer to.
- dahart 5y agoSure, of course. I guess I assumed wrong that when you said “existence” you were talking about biology and not lifestyle or consumer choices. I actually thought someone mentioned breathing and now I don’t see it, so my bad for going off on a tangent… ;)