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In lots of places the tailpipe emissions of a modern car are cleaner than the air. CO2 is a pollutant, but it's not a toxin when the concentration is low and o
by maxerickson 3y ago
In lots of places the tailpipe emissions of a modern car are cleaner than the air.
CO2 is a pollutant, but it's not a toxin when the concentration is low and oxygen is available.
- swader999 3y ago[flagged]
- Terr_ 3y ago"I'll take 'facile and reductive statements' for $100 please, Alex." CO2 is demonstrably emitted as a pollutant, but it's only a fertilizer in pretty poetic sense: Plant growth is bottlenecked by other factors.
- CapstanRoller 3y agoBy that logic, so is ammonia. Care to take a big huff off a farmer's anhydrous ammonia tank?
- 8bitsrule 3y agoSo is rape .... https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/12/more-co2-in-the-atmosphere-hurts-key-plants-and-crops-more-than-it-helps/ https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/12/more-co2-in-the-a...
- stephen_g 3y agoAnd water is essential for life, so that must mean it’s impossible to drown, right? Funny that people who say things like this and “CO2 is only 0.04% of the air” don’t want to try injecting 0.04% of their blood volume of hydrogen cyanide and seeing if such a tiny amount of something can have an effect…
- adrianN 3y agoThat conveniently ignores the non-tailpipe emissions, for example dust from tires and brake pads. I also suspect that it's only true in the lab, I have the pleasure of cycling through many clouds of noxious soot from supposedly modern cars whose owners just happen to press the throttle harder than what the NEDC requires.
- supertrope 3y agoI find the first statement hard to believe. Running a car in a closed space is deadly.