FYI, this is a right-wing dog whistle popularized during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s now an anti-vaxxer talking point.
If the carbon is in my body, it’s not in the atmosphere where it would contribute to climate change. Checkmate, atheists
So if I keep gaining weight, I’ll trap even more carbon in my body! It’s a flawless plan
You should get paid carbon credits!
Does McDonald’s accept carbon credits though?
Nuh uh! You can’t checkmate me if I
[Rage flips the board]
I am the cabrón you say?!?
Ay cabrón
Yes, you are the GOAT!
Negative, you are 65% oxygen, so in effect hot air. 18.5% is carbon, 10% is hydrogen.
Or by molecules, you are mostly water.
And by those metrics, the average vehicle exhaust from a year of driving contains as much carbon and oxygen as 300 humans.
Yes. this is a truly shitty post.
You don’t know what carbon is do you?
Nice schizopost
So we’re sequestering carbon.
Unfortunately, we are quite the opposite. We are CO2 generators.
The CO2 we breathe out is a rounding error compared to the emissions from our fossil fuel use. It’s frankly laughable to even compare the two.
My super power is methane emission.
I never said we were good at it.
So, why do you do it then?
I didn’t bring it up. The meme posted by OP did because it’s a schizopost implying that the evil lizard people want to genocide the common people to preserve the climate.
Your comment was talking about the fact that humans exhale CO2 as an unfortunate fact. I agree with that in and of itself, but in the context of the post one could definitely get the idea that you’re propagating the malthusian and exaggerated assumption that the meme is built on. That’s how I interpreted it.
If there’s no people exhaling CO2, then who would be left to enjoy the infinitessimally better state of the climate?
Well, technically, we sequester some CO2 seeing as how we’re partially made from it but yeah, I was mostly joking.
Technically, we sequester zero CO2. We only consume already sequestered carbon. We do not convert even single molecule of CO2 in to carbon.
Unless we have tiny amounts photosynthesizing algie or something similar living in our hair or under your skin. But that also gets into questions of what is you exactly.
We sequester it for a brief time and are very bad at it.
What are you talking about? Who is them? Why would anybody care about that little bit of carbon in your body when every single human “consumes” much more every day?
About 17 tones of co2 is emitted per person per year in the US. That’s about 200x more carbon emitted than your whole body weight each year, not all of which is carbon. Plus that’s not even mentioning that your body weight doesn’t contribute to global warming.
I’m overweight, so I wouldn’t mind
Better than being oxidized, I guess.
Akhctually, when you burn something you oxidise it instead of reducing it.
where is Jessica Hyde?
Speaking as one of “them”, yes. Yes you are.
