Depends on how you define pollutant. If we define a pollutant as something actively and instantly harmful, CO2 is not a pollutant. If we define it as something that can cause serious environmental problems and destabilize natural systems when present in elevated concentrations, it certainly is a pollutant.
Dude, if you are actually worried about being killed by too much water, I feel for ya.
Not my point. I'm just using it as an analogy. Just because something might be vital for your survival doesn't mean more of it is a good thing.
Just asking, but if the analogy makes no sense, then doesn't that invalidate the comparison?
No offense, but I don't know how much more easily I could spell it out than "Just because something might be vital for your survival doesn't mean more of it is a good thing."
I think from the terrorist attack and trump thread, many on the board think being muslim makes you a pollutant to the human race.
No. Pollutants are restricted to substances and energies. Here's the definition from Wikipedia:
As you can see, my "broader" definition isn't broad at all. If you're really playing fast and loose with language, we could be considered an invasive species.
In the grand scheme of things, any severe overpopulation of a species can be considered a bad thing. Whether you want to call it a pollutant or not would depend on how you define pollutant I guess.
A few more questions:
To this I would ask: "Treat her" how? To date, I have not seen or heard from anyone a logical course of action for "fixing" global warming.
Fair ones, too.
From Wikipedia again:
Ecosystems exist in a tenuous balance. There will be winners and losers, but the issue is that there will be chaos, and rapid ecological changes tend to lead to mass extinction events.
Certainly. An example. Say the runoff from a farm runs into a small lake. That runoff is rich in phospates. Before you know it, you've got an algae bloom. It's beneficial for the algae.
Whichever critters can adapt the fastest or can take the change in stride. Generally simpler organisms. What's happening in the oceans with them becoming more acidic as they absorb CO2 is a fine example of this. Some cnidarians will thrive. Mollusks and others that rely on calcified shells do not.
Watched this happen a couple of years ago with my FIL's pond, although, he doesn't have a farm so it wasn't from that. He didn't get his aerator turned on soon enough that year, and he had an algae bloom almost overnight. It killed dozens and dozens of very large catfish that he had in that pond for years.
My best friend during my middle school years had a lake we would swim in. His dad had catfish in it, so you couldn't sit still for very long or you would have them trying to take a bite out of you. There'd be blooms and kills periodically. Nasty business.
But just remember - the cool thing with THIS is it's JUST LIKE RELIGION!!!!
