Among the safest chemicals in the world for humans are Oxygen, water, carbon dioxide and nitrogen these compose air and are used by most vertebrates and plants humans interact with as an essential means to maintain life in our current environment.  Carbon dioxide oxygen and water are involved in cellular respiration and photosynthesis and clearly are non toxic in most situations in every day life compared with touching or inhaling or digesting an equal quantity of more dangerous alternative chemicals to the quantity of those safer chemicals that humans regularly interact with in day to day life simply being exposed to air, eating, drinking, bathing or showering, breathing and doing other activities of daily living.   If we reduce carbon dioxide emissions in chemical based power sources carbon dioxide will be replaced with a more dangerous chemical.  Because every chemical reaction produces chemicals from other chemicals, if carbon dioxide will not be the output of a non nuclear chemical reaction, something else will.  I am not saying to burn away all the oxygen in the world until we only have carbon dioxide in the air and everyone suffocated from lack of oxygen but simply that the extent of present laws and many laws presently proposed by most of those trying to regulate carbon dioxide emissions of even a reasonable amount pose a greater danger than if no such laws were on the book as the solutions to work around reducing carbon dioxide output but still producing the same amount of power lead to more environmentally dangerous problems for humanity.  More focus should be put on restricting more dangerous chemicals rather than one of the safest chemicals in earth, carbon dioxide.

Copyright Carl Janssen 2018 October 21

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