• Mambabasa
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    6910 months ago

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

  • Chetzemoka
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    3710 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    2010 months 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.

  • @dangblingus
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    1210 months ago

    Yes. this is a truly shitty post.

  • @Coreidan
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    910 months ago

    You don’t know what carbon is do you?

    • MxM111
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      410 months ago

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

      • Deme
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        810 months 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.

          • Deme
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            10 months ago

            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?

      • FartsWithAnAccent
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        10 months ago

        Well, technically, we sequester some CO2 seeing as how we’re partially made from it but yeah, I was mostly joking.

        • MxM111
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          310 months ago

          Technically, we sequester zero CO2. We only consume already sequestered carbon. We do not convert even single molecule of CO2 in to carbon.

          • @[email protected]
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            10 months ago

            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.

          • FartsWithAnAccent
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            110 months ago

            We sequester it for a brief time and are very bad at it.

  • @Chev
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    610 months 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?

  • @Moc
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    410 months ago

    I’m overweight, so I wouldn’t mind

  • @notatoad
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    110 months ago

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

  • Bappity
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    110 months ago

    where is Jessica Hyde?