Beating Global Warming
Lately there has been a lot of talk about global warming and the need to reduce carbon emissions. Well talk is cheap. In this blog post I propose that all of us take action today.
Immediately after reading this blog post you should take one less breath per day. If you can handle it tomorrow you should take two less breaths. But if not, do not worry, because if everyone takes one less breath we are already making amazing progress.
Let me show you some fancy numbers. You see there are over 6.5 billion people on earth. Each breath is on average 0.5 L. Carbon dioxide is typically 4.5% of the average breath. Each litre of carbon dioxide gas weighs 0.00198 kg. Hence in one year we would save 4.5% x 0.5 x 6.5 x 10^9 x 0.00198 kg x 365 of carbon dioxide. In one year that is 105,694,875 kg of carbon dioxide. That's over one hundred thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide a year if each of you would just take one less breath every day.
If you, like me, are truly concerned about global warming then let us not stop there. Imagine if every day you take one less breath than the previous day. The savings in carbon dioxide would grow linearly day by day. The graph would look like this:
The precipitous drop in the graph occurs a little over 59 years from now. The average person breathes 15 times a minute or 21,600 times a day. Hence roughly 59 years from now those diligently doing their bit to reduce carbon emissions shall have stopped breathing and will be dead. The savings at that point would be truly astronomical.
Immediately after reading this blog post you should take one less breath per day. If you can handle it tomorrow you should take two less breaths. But if not, do not worry, because if everyone takes one less breath we are already making amazing progress.
Let me show you some fancy numbers. You see there are over 6.5 billion people on earth. Each breath is on average 0.5 L. Carbon dioxide is typically 4.5% of the average breath. Each litre of carbon dioxide gas weighs 0.00198 kg. Hence in one year we would save 4.5% x 0.5 x 6.5 x 10^9 x 0.00198 kg x 365 of carbon dioxide. In one year that is 105,694,875 kg of carbon dioxide. That's over one hundred thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide a year if each of you would just take one less breath every day.
If you, like me, are truly concerned about global warming then let us not stop there. Imagine if every day you take one less breath than the previous day. The savings in carbon dioxide would grow linearly day by day. The graph would look like this:
The precipitous drop in the graph occurs a little over 59 years from now. The average person breathes 15 times a minute or 21,600 times a day. Hence roughly 59 years from now those diligently doing their bit to reduce carbon emissions shall have stopped breathing and will be dead. The savings at that point would be truly astronomical.
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