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Global Warming Again-Be Careful How Much You Breathe!

December 16, 2009 on 5:49 am | In General Posts | No Comments

As you know, the EPA was just given the authority to regulate CO2, a natural byproduct of simply being alive. What’s next-will government tell us we should all breathe a little bit less so that we exhale even less carbon dioxide?

Don’t laugh-this could easily happen. Here’s why.

Simply look at the math. If there are approximately 300,000,000 people in the United States, and each person exhales approximately 1 ton of carbon dioxide each year, think how much less carbon dioxide we would have in our immediate environment if each person was required to exhale 20% less often. The decrease in carbon dioxide in our country would be staggering. Simply breathing less will do more to clean up our environment than any of the other proposals currently being discussed.
People who breathe more than the recommended amount (“heavy breathers”) would be fined for polluting the environment. And since certain foods increase our internal production of gas, pretty soon foods can be regulated as well in an attempt to reduce carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and methane production.

I am certainly not proposing the government regulate how often I breathe, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that proposal is forthcoming once some “scientist” puts the pencil to the paper and realizes just how much less pollution we would have if only all of us would breathe less!