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  Extremely fit have larger carbon footprints than do couch potatoes
by
Dr H. Harrister, BS, MS, PhD, OBWAG
1. INTRODUCTION
Ever since the Supreme Court has (wisely) ruled that carbon dioxide is a 
pollutant, the number of people who have been made exceptionally nervous 
has increased nearly exponentially (exponentially is a mathematical 
term). It is up to science to discover ways of reducing this vile gas, 
to root out its sources, and suggest interesting ways of scientifically 
punishing environmental malefactors.
Thus, it follows that it is the duty of every single person to reduce 
their carbon footprint in every conceivable way, and to do so in the 
shortest amount of time humanely possible before disaster strikes.
The purpose of this scientific paper, therefore, is to bring to mind a 
particular activity that had previously been assumed virtuous but under 
the unerring eye of science has proved to be pernicious. That activity 
is exercise.
2. MATHEMATICAL CALCULATIONS
We accept, as we must accept after the highest court in the land said 
so, that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a pollutant. Many common 
people-unfortunately, those without sufficient educations-are not aware 
that each time they exhale they are adding to the excessive burden of 
CO2 in our precious atmosphere. This is because humans inhale oxygen 
into their lungs with each breath-oxygen that is forever depleted from 
the air, because that oxygen is processed into CO2.
Each exhaled breath contains a certain amount of CO2. The exact amount 
is a function of total lung capacity, residual lung volume, and vital 
capacity, as well as related to other measures of pulmonary function. In 
this paper, we make the reasonable approximation that variations in the 
amount of CO2 exhaled per breath are negligible, that is, the amount of 
exhaled CO2 is fixed for all people, except in two ways which we note 
below. It is important to recognize, however, that most of this human 
CO2 outgassing takes place in the troposphere (troposphere is a 
meteorological term), in the boundary layer. Shockingly, this is also 
where most people live.
The main source of variation of exhaled pollution (CO2), the 
intra-person variability, is due to respiration rate (RR). Higher RRs 
mean more breaths per hour and therefore more pollution added to the 
atmosphere, and therefore the more likely we are to experience runaway 
greenhouse effects. Therefore, people with lower RRs have smaller carbon 
footprints (or lungprints as we should properly say) than those people 
with higher RRs.
Let LS = lung size. The average resting breath for an adult North 
American human male contains about LSrest = 325 ml of air. This expands 
to twice this under aerobic stress (exercise), to about LSstress = 650 
ml of air. There will be variations in these values, of course, but we 
scientifically dispense with this uncertainty.
Because all tissue in the human body has to be oxygenated lest it turn 
sour, it implies that the fatter (larger) a person is the more oxygen 
they consume. This is mitigated somewhat because those at that highest 
scale of fatness, the couch potatoes, tend to engage in very little 
movement. And since movement means using muscles, and muscles rely on 
oxygen as part of their fuel, less movement means less oxygen usage (or 
utilization, if you prefer).
Since the humans under our consideration are assigned to have equal lung 
volume and other pulmonary functions, more oxygen usage is equivalent to 
higher RRs. As explained above, more oxygen usage is directly 
proportional to more CO2 creation. To be explicit: higher RRs give rise 
to higher amounts of CO2 degassing to the atmosphere. Not all of the air 
inhaled in processed into CO2. Let the fraction of each breath that is 
converted to pollutants be fco2.
The RR of couch potatoes is likely to be even and vary little throughout 
any 24-hour period because of their habit of remaining as stationary as 
possible. This rate will be slightly higher than thin, non exercising 
people, and higher than exercising people at rest because couch 
potatoes' larger bodies need more oxygen. Studies have shown that this 
rate is RRCP = 14 breaths per minute. Thus, we present equation 1, the 
amount of pollutant added (PA) to the atmosphere per day for this class 
of individual:
Eq. 1 PACP = RRCP x LSrest x fco2 x 60 minutes hours-1 x 24 hours day-1
This equation is unlikely to be wrong because it has been written in the 
proper mathematical format. It also uses scientific notation, and your 
author has a PhD.
Equation 1 can be contrasted to a similar equation for those who engage 
in excessive exercise, which is defined as 22 hours of calm followed by 
two hours (not necessarily contiguous) of frenetic bursts of ludicrous 
activity. The RR for exercisers at rest is known to be RREx:rest = 12 
breaths per minute. While engaged in stressful activities this rises to 
RREx:stress = 30 breaths per minute. Thus, the daily amount of PA for 
exercisers is
Eq. 2 PAEx = RREx:rest x LSrest x fco2 x 60 minutes hours-1 x 22 hours 
day-1 + RREx:stress x LSstress x fco2 x 120 minutes
Substituting the precise values into equations 1 and 2 gives
Eq. 1b PACP = 14 x 325 x fco2 x 60 x 24 hours
which equals
Eq. 1c PACP = 6552000 x fco2
And
Eq. 2b PAEx = 12 x 325 x fco2 x 60 minutes hours-1 x 22 hours day-1 + 30 
x 650 x fco2 x 120 minutes
which equals
Eq. 2c PAEx = 5148000 x fco2 + 2340000 x fco2 = 7488000 x fco2
which makes the ratio of PAEx to PACP equal to
Eq. 3 PAEx/PACP = 1.142857
Conveniently, we do not need to know the exact value of fco2, as it 
cancels in the equation.
3. CONCLUSIONS
Through the strictest scientific procedures, the same as those used in a 
myriad of studies of this type, we have conclusively proven that those 
people who exercise have a carbon foot (or lung) print 14.29% higher 
than those who, altruistically it turns out, lie around on the couch. 
Future studies will examine the additional benefits of progressing to a 
drunken stupor, a state in which minimal oxygen usage is obtained.
It might be argued that CPs eat more, thus they increase the amount of 
CO2 added because of their increased food intake. But this argument is 
specious when contrasted with the habits of the very fit, defined as 
people who typically motor to Whole Foods in their SUVs to buy only 
"organic" comestibles, the creation of which produces far more CO2 than 
does, say, manufacturing bags of Cheesy Puffs, the chosen snack food of 
most couch potatoes. Plus, of course, those who exercise more actual 
consume a greater amount of food than do lazy slobs (this is 
scientifically true).
The policy implications of this study are obvious: people must be 
discouraged immediately from exercising. They should be taught the 
immorality of it, how their narcissistic habits unnecessarily add to 
carbon burden of the atmosphere, thus endangering the fragile climate 
system, and therefore the future for our children.
If we can each stop just one jogger from donning his multi-colored, 
garish shorts and trotting through the neighborhood, we will have done 
the Earth a tremendous service.
-- 
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, 
stand like a rock. -- Thomas Jefferson


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 drunken stupor, a state in which minimal oxygen usage is obtained.
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