Category Fear of CO2

They fear the air now. Not the smog of real pollution or the sulfur of industrial abuse — but the very breath of life: carbon dioxide. One carbon, two oxygen, and suddenly it’s the new Satan. The original green molecule — invisible, essential, ancient — recast as a planetary threat by people who wouldn’t know a photosynthetic cycle if it bit them in the ethics.

Aeraphobia is the irrational terror of atmospheric balance. It’s what happens when a civilization forgets it’s part of nature and starts treating nature as a hostile force to be regulated, taxed, and scrubbed. CO₂ — lifeblood of the biosphere, enabler of crops, forests, coral, plankton — is now hunted like a fugitive. Not because it kills, but because it dares to exist.

This section dismantles the dogma. It peels back the hysteria, the virtue-signaling, the corporate profiteering, and the policy theater that turned a trace gas into a global moral panic. I don’t write this to defend emissions — I write it to defend proportion, logic, and the kind of clarity that once kept us from eating our own tail.