By now you should know that you hate the planet if you eat beef, instead of mashed-up bugs or heavily salted soy protein or algae or whatever.
And of course, you hate the planet if your car uses gasoline instead of electricity, which is generated by, apparently, magic.
But did you know that now you hate the planet if you have asthma but you insist on breathing anyway?
Take a deep breath, if you’re able, and read this from Jeffrey Kluger at Time:
According to a new study published in BMJ Open, the familiar lightweight, pocket-sized aerosolized inhalers that make breathing easier for so many of the 235 million people worldwide who suffer from asthma may be choking the planet on a powerful greenhouse gas they release in the process…
The researcher compared the greenhouse gas emissions of aerosol pumps—known as metered-dose inhalers (MDI)—with dry powder inhalers (DPI), which are shaped something like a hockey puck and are activated simply by inhaling…
The problem with MDIs is not carbon dioxide (the most common greenhouse gas), but rather methane, which represents a far smaller share of greenhouse emissions, but a much more powerful one, with up to 84 times the heat-trapping power of CO2.
Even the least polluting inhaler was found to emit methane at levels equal to up to 10 kg (22 lbs.) of carbon dioxide into the air over the course of its 200-puff lifetime.
That’s the price of progress. Sure, a lot more people can breathe now. Is it really worth being alive if it means climate cultists are going to scold you for killing the planet?
Oxygen is just like any other natural resource. You should use as little of it as possible. For asthmatics, this is easy: Just throw away your inhalers. Before you know it, the problem will solve itself. See How Natural Turmeric Can Relieve Asthma
But the rest of us who are fully-lunged can do our part too. Try taking shallow breaths instead of huge gulps of air. Or, if you love the planet, just stop breathing altogether.
One less set of lungs screwing things up for everybody else. You really can make a difference!
Read more at PJ Media
“The problem with MDIs is not carbon dioxide (the most common greenhouse gas), …”
uh, water is the most common greenhouse gas. And there is a whole lot more of it than CO2.
Come on Dave. You act like facts matter to these people. Also, even if methane is a “more powerful greenhouse gas” it makes up such a tiny bit of the atmosphere (makes CO2 levels look huge) being more powerful doesn’t translate into having any effect. These people just make things up.
There is no such thing as a “greenhouse gas” .. and no gas in the universe can “trap heat”
As we all ready know by now this whole Global Warming/Climate Change is a big worldwide scam and liberal rags like TIME print lies total lies with just about every issue
How can a light inhaler filled with a few grammes of gas, emit 10kg of gas? Can anyone explain this chemical conundrum?
“… emit methane at levels equal to up to 10 kg (22 lbs.) of carbon dioxide into the air …”
ie – a small amount of methane has the ‘heat trapping’ equivalent of a larger amount of carbon dioxide.
That is, if you’ve been indoctrinated to believe in “heat trapping’ gasses to begin with…..
Its all just a Excuse by the Eco-Freaks the UN the Globalists Etc to regulate our lives from cradle to grave
As a person who suffered with childhood asthma and have family members who have had it lifelong, I like to make the light-hearted comment that allergies and bronchial ailments are proof that our ancient ancestors seeded humanity on the wrong planet. In similar manner these breathing challenges repesent a method by which Mother Earth seeks to repel our presence. That being the possible logic here, perhaps we should hate the planet and do all we can to destroy it. Justice!
“Heat-trapping power” ??? .. are you freaking kidding me? .. where do these morons get this shht?!?! .. no gas in the universe can “trap heat” .. that is physically impossible !!
Some people just like to make a fuss over non-issues. Even if climate change were actually a problem, the use of an inhaler that lasts a long time would be the same as burning one gallon of gas. That is nothing in comparison to the need to breathe. Of course the other comments are right in that release of carbon dioxide or methane is not a problem.
I’m one of the people who need an inhaler, particularly in emergency situations. Life without it would be impossible. The propellant is actually tetrafluoroethane, which is also used as a refrigerant. It has already been widely banned for the latter use case, but not yet for inhalers (presumably because the amounts are ridiculously small).