Why is popsci and the entire media going overboard with this carbon pollution hysteria? We ourselves contain carbon about 16 kg per person to be exact. Does this mean that we are polluting the environment just be being alive? The entire human population of about 6.6 billion people must contain about 105.6 million metric tons of environment polluting carbon. I’m just waiting for someone to suggest a mass genocide to rid our planet of all the polluting carbon residing in human beings.
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