CO2’s Double Identity
A little Kawaii Not-inspired silliness I just whipped up a bit slap-dashedly
From RedOrbit.com:
The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday, June 29:
“Carbon dioxide: It’s what we breathe out and plants breathe in. They call it pollution; we call it life.”
That paradox expressed by the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute is being used to counter former Vice President Al Gore’s scary global warming documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
How could a life-giving gas be dangerous to our planet? What right does a president or Congress have to regulate it as if it were smog, acid rain or arsenic?
Those are the central questions the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to answer by hearing Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency next fall. It could be the most significant environmental case ever to come before the court. …
The Clean Air Act specifies some pollutants for regulation, but not carbon dioxide. The act does allow the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate any pollutant that affects the “welfare” of “soils, water, crops, vegetation, man-made materials, animals, wildlife, weather, visibility and climate, and damage to and deterioration of property.” Global warming, caused, in part, by carbon dioxide coming from vehicles, is having those negative effects.
EPA already regulates other naturally occurring substances. Phosphorus, for example, is a critical nutrient for plants, but it’s regulated because in excessive quantities, it kills life in lakes and streams. Likewise, carbon dioxide, in excessive quantity, is hurting the planet.
Yes, the Earth needs carbon dioxide, but only so much. When the supply begins to endanger public health, government should act.
Liz said,
August 20, 2006 at 7:39 am
Can I ask how you do that? (Chekov, too) All I can do on a computer is type words. ;)
Michelle said,
August 20, 2006 at 1:24 pm
This just sounds like more wordplay on the part of some of the policy makers….
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