RAMBLINGS ON GLOBAL WARMING

It seems strange that amongst all the proposals for controlling CO2 emissions nobody has yet suggested banning undue exertion. After all human beings are puffing out CO2 like crazy and the more they exert themselves the more oxygen they take in and the more CO2 they blow out.

Ought we not to know the effect of human exertion on the looming problem of climate change?
It is claimed that we have statistics on the amount of methane vented from the back end of the bovine population so why not?

To my non mathematical mind it would seem to be a relatively simple problem to arrive at an average output of CO2 for a human being at rest and to multiply that by the estimated world population.Using that as a base it ought to be possible to evaluate the effect of exertion.

In the history of this planet the population of human beings has increased beyond all reason and continues to do so. In geological time that is a recent event. Might there not be a connection?

Governments ,which seem to go out of their way to fund unlikely scientific investigations, have been behind the door in missing this opportunity.

Of course to ban exertion would conflict with that other obsession of recent times, obesity.It may be that we are looking at that problem from the wrong angle.Perhaps the solution is not more exercise but restriction of food intake.I have seen it stated that the health of the British population was good during world war II when essential foodstuffs were in short supply and tightly rationed.

The opportunity for more bureaucractic control in this area is very attractive.It could make a contribution to solving the unemployment problem and would go some way to increase the consumer spend.

Banning exertion however might have to be selective.It could have consequences for our way of life which some, but not all, would find congenial. It would mean an end to football,rugby, horse racing, gyms and badminton to mention just a few activities.

It would require a definition of undue exertion which would occupy lawyers for quite a time at great expense.

On reflection perhaps we meddle too much.