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 At what point do we in the West wake up from our childish stupor and acknowledge the reality of the world we live in?

Annual CO2 emissions. https://image.nostr.build/dd0fe4a1dbda588ad2104d7ef9dbcc17845c4927f5f8942a1823d96783dde13c.jpg  
 CO2 is plant food, and a key component of photosynthesis. It’s not toxic or harmful. 
 You exhale CO2. 
These charts are heavily manipulated and used as scare-tactic tools for grants and regulations. 
I worked in meteorology. It became a highly politicized field. If you wanted to keep your job or get promoted (or hired, you must subscribe to the AGW claim).  If you tried to show real data and examine it with the scientific method, you were discredited in the community. 
 This is not about CO2 but about the poverty the west is about to experience. Western states are broke and the western populations will experience falling living standards soon. The budgets will be getting tighter but government will stay the same or even increase. Somebody will have to foot the bill. The trick is that you're going to consume less meat not because you are poor but because you are cutting CO2 emissions. Bread lines like in the Soviet Union but with CBDCs and a climate gas emission account. 
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 Should be adjusted for: 
- methane emissions 
- Carbon sink opportunity cost (e.g. Brazilian Forrest turned soybean for cattle)
- adjusted for net consumption, not as is the case in this graph production.