The Australian Government calls carbon dioxide, the gas of life, a pollutant. The US EPA has declared the same gas a health hazard. These asinine laws decree that a mother’s warm breath on her baby’s face is a toxin.
And still these imbeciles are not laughed out of court. Meanwhile, Asia gasps in a brown cloud of real pollution like the smogs that smothered London and Pittsburgh in the 1950’s.
The Asian smog is not caused by carbon dioxide.
It comes from dirty combustion – uncontrolled peat and forest fires in Indonesia, open air cremations and cow dung cooking in India, smoky mosquito repelling fires in SE Asia, rubbish dump fires, dust and ash from dirty old boilers and plants, and poor people everywhere scrounging dung, sticks, cardboard, coal, rags and anything that burns for cooking and heating.
The London smog was cleared away with “coal by wire” – clean silent electric heating and lighting from distant steam generators.
Anyone concerned about Asian air pollution would be encouraging the construction of clean modern power stations to replace a myriad of dirty open fires.
Instead, fools try to ration and tax a life-supporting, non-polluting, invisible, will-o-the-wisp like carbon dioxide – fiddling while Asia burns.
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Note: The “toxic” air breathed out by humans contains about 4% CO2 (40,000 ppm), over 100 times higher than the atmosphere which has just 386 ppm. Politicians should stop exhalation.
Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, has spent his life working in exploration, mining, farming, infrastructure, financial analysis and political commentary. He has worked for government departments, private companies and now works as a private contractor and farmer.
Viv has also been a guest writer for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Queensland and mining newspapers. He was awarded the “Australian Adam Smith Award for Services to the Free Society” in 1988, and has written widely on political, technical and economic subjects.
