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When one gets so caught up on a word that triggers a special response, one is weakened. His/her vision is distorted. To automatically react to 'CO2' as leftist is far out there.
You do understand, don't you that if we burned all of the fossil fuel on earth, and all of the wood, and anything else that could release CO2, when it was all burned, we still wouldn't have brought the atmospheric CO2 level up to a number that would represent a danger to breathe?
Why go on about CO2 being a poison when there isn't enough material on earth to create toxic levels in the atmosphere?
My problem is not directly related to CO2, but we all have to admit that is can be dangerous locally.
We also have to admit that the emissions of CO2 are associated with other practices that also pollute in many ways. That is what I don't like, pollution. It is disgusting, it is inhuman and excess is avoidable.
And to argue that we could all still breathe after the conflagration described is to provide cold comfort (to play on words). That certainly would cause a long winter.