kreed wrote:
> Since there has been all this hype about removing carbon emissions,
**It's not hype. It's all about science. Something you have no familiarity
with.
>
> Why hasn't anyone come up with the concept of totally banning soft
> drinks, since these are all made with
> carbon dioxide (for the carbonated water) and unlike electricity and
> transport fuels are definitely not an
> essential item to humanity (Debatably quite the opposite) and would
> cause relatively small disruption to society if banned.
**Because, my scientifically ignorant 'friend', the CO2 used for the
production of soft drinks is extracted from the air. IOW, the CO2 in soft
drinks is actually assisting with the REMOVAL of CO2 from the atmosphere.
That is a good thing. OTOH, a case could be made for banning soft drinks on
the basis that they use energy for their manufacture and are, generally, an
appalling way for humans to obtain kilojoules.
>
>
> This kind of struck me today when i walked past a bar and saw large
> cylinders marked carbon dioxide being unloaded for use in drinks.
**Did it strike you to think where that CO2 came from? It is extracted from
the atmosphere. Thus carbonated soft drinks actually help with removing CO2
from the atmosphere.
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