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? asked in Science & MathematicsChemistry · 2 years ago

Can anybody think of a more ignorant, but commonly made, mistake than referring to CO2 as a "pollutant"?

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  • 2 years ago

    A thouroughly brainwashed bunch here, they even think they know what the "right" level of CO2 is, when all the evidence shows us that the miore CO2 the better for life on Earth.

    The most productive time for humans and animals in the last 2,000 years was the medieval -much warmer than it is now, as anybody can find out for themselves and don't just swallow the propaganda lies, and no CO2.

    All life depends on just three things, without them there would be no life as we know it, no food to eat or air to breathe, those 3 things are Sunlight, H2O and CO2- to call one a pollutant is absurd.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    2 years ago

    Plant require CO2 to photosynthesize. However, if there is a high concentration of CO2 in a closed spaced with an animal then that animal will asphyxiate. The dose makes the poison.

  • 2 years ago

    If there is CO2 some place where it does not belong, or at a concentration greater than it should be, it IS a pollutant.

  • Dr W
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    some definitions for you to consider during your rewrite / rethinking of this question

    Oxford (English) dictionary

    .. "pollutant" - a substance that pollutes something, especially water or the atmosphere

    .. "pollute" - contaminate with harmful or poisonous substances

    .. "pollution" - the presence or introduction into an environment a substance that has

    .. .. .. .. ... ... ..harmful or poisonous effects

    .. "contaminate" - make impure by addition of a polluting substance

    Merriam Webster dictionary

    .. "pollutant" - something that pollutes

    .. "pollute" - to contaminate especially with man-made waste

    .. "pollution" - the act of or condition of being polluted

    .. "contaminate" - to make impure

    etc

    *********

    Your argument that CO2 is naturally occurring and therefore cannot be a contaminate doesn't hold true. We can have CO2 in the atmosphere and pollute the atmosphere with MORE CO2 from an industrial process according to the vague definitions I've listed here.

  • 2 years ago

    LOL.... Pollutant??? Of course not. CO2 is your friend. It will keep you warm for the next millennium ......... as you learn to tread water in the dome of the US Capitol.

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