We are all made of carbon

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• mambabasa@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  FYI, this is a right-wing dog whistle popularized during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s now an anti-vaxxer talking point.

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• Chetzemoka@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  If the carbon is in my body, it's not in the atmosphere where it would contribute to climate change. Checkmate, atheists

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    So if I keep gaining weight, I’ll trap even more carbon in my body! It’s a flawless plan

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    • Hacksaw@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      You should get paid carbon credits!

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  • Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Nuh uh! You can't checkmate me if I

    [Rage flips the board]

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• SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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.

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• badbrainstorm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I am the cabrón you say?!?

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  • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Ay carbón

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  • CIWS-30@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Yes, you are the GOAT!

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• dangblingus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Yes. this is a truly shitty post.

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• Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  You don’t know what carbon is do you?

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• Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Nice schizopost

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• Chev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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?

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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.

  wri.org/…/charts-explain-per-capita-greenhouse-ga….

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• FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  So we’re sequestering carbon.

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  • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, we are quite the opposite. We are CO2 generators.

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    • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      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.

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    • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Well, technically, we sequester some CO2.

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• EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Something vaguely related to this topic is the fact that countries with more laws designed to abate climate changing effects are also experiencing a slowdown in the rate with which they have children. Whereas many countries with relatively high birthrates generally do not have very strict climate standards. Overall levels of general education also play into this.

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  • bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Correlation causation etc

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    • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Right. There are many factors at play that lead to these outcomes, and there are always outliers

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  • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Yeah and selling ice cream leads to shark attacks 🙄

    Countries with a well-educated population care more about the future of the planet and well-educated people have fewer kids. There’s no “climate childlessness” like you seem to be implying.

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    • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Read my edit. I think I’m being misunderstood, and I don’t think I clearly communicated what I was trying to. Your second paragraph literally summarized what I was trying to convey, but I’m better at numbers and graphs than I am with words lol

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• irdc@derp.foo ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Akhctually, when you burn something you oxidise it instead of reducing it.

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Better than being oxidized, I guess.

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• Moc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I’m overweight, so I wouldn’t mind

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• notatoad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Speaking as one of “them”, yes. Yes you are.

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• bappity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  where is Jessica Hyde?

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