As do I. My sister almost died from it. I have a rare form of it that is triggered randomly and only occasionally by vigorous physical activity. Most asthma is caused by cold air, stress, respiratory infection, and allergic reaction to air pollutants, most commonly dust and pollen. I have never seen a single case of somebody having an allergy to oxygen or carbon or CO2, however.
If fossil fuel generated air pollution was a serious issue with asthma, you would have seen a sharp reduction in cases of asthma as we have steadily cleaned up the air quality for the last 50 years or so. Instead there is a higher degree of asthma and other allergy sufferers so I rather think the cause is in grossly processed foods we eat and other products we use.
Pollen makes asthma unbearable. Not long ago they had a Peat moss fire in NC that smouldered for a year. The smoke blew all the way to Virginia. Where there is fire there is smoke. Smoke is not good for the air.
There are more electrical users due to the increase in population, thereby needing more fossil fuel generation.
Nobody really knows about asthma yet.
Pollution causes cancer. Hydrocarbons are deadly. They are linked to causing cancer.
Hydrocarbon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Well I don't know how many different concepts, points, and messages can be interspersed into one short post, but you must have hit a near record with this one.
Didn't take long to shift from asthma to cancer to chemical compounds did it? (I still say this phenomenon is related to the water you guys drink.)
Yes hydrocarbons can be deadly as is Vitamin A and D in very large doses as can be alcohol (which is a hydrocarbon by the way) as can be probably 90% of the substances on Earth be carcinogens in certain forms and/or concentrations. Many MANY things that are essential to our lives and health can be poisonous in excessive doses or otherwise misued.
Scientific R & D projects are currently working on processes that could convert CO2 directly into hydrocarbons to use for fuel and thereby bypass the very lengthy process for plants and animals to be naturally processed into fuels.
Some pretty exhaustive studies have been done in various occupational fields and remarkably, though the work itself can be dangerous, those working in the oil fields and refineries tend to be healthier in every category than the general population including cancer rate, respiratory diseases, and other anticipated occupational hazards. Here is one of those studies:
oem.bmj.com › Volume 57, Issue 6. This would suggest that we should really be concerned about a whole lot of other things ahead of the hydrocarbons we are exposed to.
And though it is a fact that neither human or plant life can live in a very high CO2 atmosphere, we need the CO2 that is present and the .04% CO2 concentration in our atmosphere is not going to be a hazard to anybody or anything. Nor will doubling or tripling that tiny percentage be a hazard to anybody or any thing.
