Some people, by continuing to breath, have an outsized effect compared to others.

Clearly the issue here is just prioritizing who stops breathing.

To be fair to them, it's a reader's question, and the answer says that in reality, the CO2 we’re breathing out is part of a natural cycle, by which our bodies convert carbohydrates from CO2-absorbing plants into energy, plus water and CO2. As such, we’re not adding any extra CO2. In contrast, burning fossil fuels like coal releases CO2 which has been locked up for millions of years, producing a net contribution to global warming.

Source: https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/how-much-does-human-breathing-contribute-to-climate-change

Soooo… it still sounds to me like you’re saying that breath from people who burn more fossil fuels has an outsized impact?

I feel like this just proves my point around needing to prioritize who stops.

Exactly this. Clearest example of ecofascism I've ever seen.

To be fair to us, they didn't have to answer the question. It was a choice.

This is grim. Seriously. This article only contributes to thiel’s and altman’s transhumanism ideology.

Just to point out, Sam Altman invested heavily to a technology to be developed that his brain would be digitalised and set to live forever before he dies. It’s just sad that people enable this shit happening for money.

they want us to stop breathing

Ah yes where every single publication simply must be the machinations of the capitalist class pulling the puppet strung editors of all news organisations everywhere simultaneously never failing in their aim to keep blame of climate change away from capitalism.

OR

The BBC is choosing to answer a dumb question with scientific rigior to show that "no, breathing out does not contribute to climate change" because some portions of the general public are really gullable and actually asked this question.

But the bottom line is whilst this is a truly idiotic question I'd rather those people asked it because it means there's still a spark of curiosity and desire to learn rather than live in ignorance.

Yes, agreed on those two points.

First thing I thought of:

spaceballs was a such a classic

It’s just sad that people enable this shit happening for money.

the one thing that kept coming to mind as i reviewed the epstein files was how much money it took to buy island and several gov'ts at the same time and for decades.

what kind of world would be living in if all that wealth wasn't spend on enabling baby factories to send to child-fuck-island so that the rich and powerful can engage in depravities that most of us are too scared to imagine.

Was?

haha I suppose it still very much is

Capitalism is holding back on more environmentaly friendly power generation for maximum profit.