You Are the Carbon They Want to Reduce: WEF 'Sustainability' Leftist Wants to Charge People for Breathing

A little over two years ago, so-called scientists published a study claiming that our breathing contributes to climate change. Every exhale we make adds to greenhouse gas emissions. They said humans also emit more greenhouse gases with belching and flatulence, as well as "emissions that come from our skin without us noticing."

It's hard not to give the conspiracy theorists another W on this one, because they've long said that we are the carbon the environmentalist Left wants to reduce. And now the global elites are floating the idea of taxing us for breathing the air.

CEO of the Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Lindsey Hooper, claims that water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. She proposes classifying them as assets and placing them on a global balance sheet.

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This was from a World Economic Forum (WEF) event in June 2024, held in China (which is known for being environmentally friendly).

"We talk about capital, we tend to think only about financial capital," Hooper said. "We know that every aspect of every part of the economy is fundamentally dependent on that which you've highlighted: the air that we breathe, the water we drink, the soil, the oceans that we need for the food that we need to consume."

"Without these forms of values, these forms of natural capital, we wouldn't have economies; they are the fundamental building blocks of economies," Hooper continued.

"But the ways...in which we have grown our economies, our models of economic development, have been incredibly successful for global prosperity," Hooper said. "But the unintended consequences of the current models of growth are simply not sustainable on a finite planet."