I was talking to a normie associate about the efforts to reduce "carbon footprints." He was mentioning about electric vehicles and wind turbines. I said "if they really believe that there's global warming, then why spend $4 million on an ugly wind turbine? How many beautiful trees do you think they could plant for $4 million?"
His response did find the problem with my suggestion, but it instantly made me realize how insane the entire premise of CO2 fear is.
He said "well, trees do absorb a lot of CO2 from the atmosphere each year, but the problem is that when they die and decompose, they put the CO2 back into the atmosphere."
He was right. Whenever a tree dies, all that carbon goes back into the air. But not not just trees, we're talking about every living thing on earth-- insects, farm produce, grass, weeds, fish, algae, mammals, bacteria, EVERYTHING! Not just when they die, but whenever a tree loses it's leaves, or an animal sheds skin or hair, much eventually becomes carbon in the air.
That's the way the world works! It's a huge cycle based on helpful CO2, helpful oxygen.
Trying to fight our carbon footprint is like telling people they need to drink less water and pee less or they'll be in danger of flooding the earth.
This is such a miniscule amount, it could hardly be measured accurately (or meaningfully) on a global scale. CO2 only occupies 0.03 to 0.04% of the atmosphere. It can be measured in a lab under controlled conditions, but not on a larger scale.
The largest carbon sink on the planet? It's the oceans. Plankton release/use it when they photosynthesize, but that varies between daylight and nighttime. Seawater also absorbs CO2, more as temperatures rise. This is contrary to the narrative.