When you hear celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio declare war on carbon dioxide,
it’s hard not to roll your eyes and think “Smoke another one, Leo.” Of
course, that wouldn’t really be possible if we somehow did manage to get
rid of all the carbon dioxide on Earth. That’s because this life-giving
molecule is essential to all plant life, including the cannabis that
some of these anti-carbon dioxide proponents are so fond of.
As a matter of fact, all of the healing nutrients that are found in cannabis
are made of this “miracle molecule.” You can’t have one without the
other. Without carbon dioxide, you wouldn’t have THC, which can help
with pain relief, nausea, asthma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and
glaucoma, to name but a few conditions. Cannabis, with all its promise
in helping everything from inflammation and nausea to anxiety, epilepsy,
and cancer, simply wouldn’t exist without the carbon dioxide that it
breathes. Have these people never heard of photosynthesis?
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger,
set out to show those who have taken the whole anti-carbon dioxide
sentiment too far the errors of their ways in a video on Health Ranger
Science called Carbon Dioxide: The Miracle Molecule of Life. If
carbon dioxide were to suddenly disappear from our planet, you’d have
to say goodbye to your green smoothie, cannabis, and everything else you
consume, and pretty soon you’d be joining them in the great beyond
because life cannot be sustained without it.
The video, which is a
real eye-opener, explains what our world would look like without carbon
dioxide, and it’s not a very pretty picture. It shows cities like Los
Angeles, Toronto, Albuquerque and New York City without trees, grass,
plants, animals and people, and the images are haunting. Adams says
modern plants are actually starving for carbon dioxide, and our world
would be more lush and green if there was slightly more of it. He points
out that the hormones in your body, the Vitamin C in your fruit, and
the cannabidiol in your hemp extract are all made of carbon, yet people continue to demonize it.
Poor
air quality is absolutely killing people around the world, and
particulate pollution emissions are a serious problem for many reasons.
However, before jumping on the all-carbon-dioxide-is-bad bandwagon, it
is important to realize that it is a matter of finding the right
balance, not getting rid of it altogether. Some carbon dioxide is good –
and Adams even argues that slightly higher levels than we have now
would be beneficial – while extremely high levels in the atmosphere
would be toxic. In short, carbon dioxide is not the enemy that many are
making it out to be, and a basic grasp of middle school biology is all
one needs to understand just how vital it is.
Those celebrities
who are genuinely concerned about the environment would do well to
channel their anti-carbon dioxide vitriol toward some of the real
threats facing our environment today instead. Mass deforestation, heavy
metal contamination in food and soil, Fukushima radiation, toxic biosludge fertilizing farms, and the herbicides and pesticides in our food supply are all killing life on Earth as we speak.
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