Is climate change making us dumb?
Idiocracy is a cult science-fiction comedy from 2006 about an American soldier, of exactly average intelligence, who is sent to the future by means of hibernation. He wakes up in a dystopian future, 500 years from now, where he’s the smartest person in the world.
Is there a grain of truth in the story line of this film?
The average IQ of western populations has been increasing throughout the 20th century. This effect is called the Flynn effect. The average increase of persons born in a certain year has been increasing by about 3…
Our climate has been disrupted. We call this climate change.
The IPCC predicts CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere of between 600 ppm (optimistically) and 1000 ppm (pessimistically) in the year 2100. 1000 ppm is the CO2 concentration level which is reached in a badly ventilated meeting room. Imagine being inside a badly ventilated meeting room, even when breathing “fresh” air, is definitely not a nice thought. Especially when we know so little about the long term effects of CO2 on our bodies, as I have previously written about.
In order to stop this, I believe that we will need disruptive…
Many towns are in the danger zone!
As depicted in the illustration above, we can sometimes experience conditions with highly increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. This occurs in certain weather conditions, where there is little wind combined with the lack of rain. The air is not well circulated, and thus the exchange with cleaner air does not happen. These are the same conditions that also cause what we call smog. Some towns are more in danger of such domes. Towns that are located in a valley have a higher risk of bad air, as their location acts as…
A comparison to alcohol.
Many adults have experienced the effects of alcohol. But not so many have experienced the effects that CO2 has on the body, right? Wrong! Actually most of us have been in poorly ventilated meeting rooms. First you become less and less concentrated. Then we start feeling tiredness. Some of us might even doze off. In some rare cases, the room might be so badly ventilated, that we even start getting headaches. All of these effects are related to elevated levels of CO2.
In this article I will show what the effects of CO2 on your body…
Daniel Lux
What scares me about climate change is the effect that high CO2 levels have on our bodies and intelligence, yet very few are writing about this.
