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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (32093)6/11/2002 3:00:57 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
<It certainly is a good thing you are not a doc, 'cuz your ideers would be laying folks out on cold slabs in the morgue. >

Huh? Rats, please name one idea I expressed which would cause a single slabster. You obviously misunderstood something.

I've explained why your ideas would cause lots and lots of deaths - to explain once again, opportunity cost causes people to die. Wasting money on useless things causes people to die. Wasting money on CO2 sequestration and other CO2 minimisation strategies would cause death.

Levels of CO2 at 300 ppm ambient do not kill. Period! <Elevated levels of CO2 kill, period.>

Heck, at this rate I'd better apply for your job.

Your suggestion that the ambient partial pressure of CO2 sets people off on the way to CO2 narcosis is basically tough luck for them. We can't run the world for people who are physiologically so tenuous that 300 or 400 ppm of ambient CO2 puts them at risk when things get critical. Especially since there are so few of them and the cost of doing so is so high.

If they have a problem, they should be kept in a pressure chamber where you can totally control ambient CO2 and oxygen and everything else. Controlling the planet as a pressure chamber for a few sick people isn't cost-effective.

I think I have your point right there.

Roll on 400 ppm.

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