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The breathing thing is a pretty poor analogy. The problem with climate change is not living things breathing. It is the insertion of net new carbon into our ca
by philips 5y ago
The breathing thing is a pretty poor analogy.
The problem with climate change is not living things breathing. It is the insertion of net new carbon into our carbon cycle by digging it out of the ground and burning it.
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoNot so. You ate food to make that CO2. If you had buried it underground instead, that carbon would have remained sequestered instead of reentering the atmosphere. It's a good example precisely to show that you can spin anything into a negative externality by comparing it to some possible alternative which is better on some possible metric. Then if you want to show that the other alternative is worse, choose a different metric. No thing exists which is more perfect than all other things across all metrics.