A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land

by P.J. O'Rourke

The Internet tells me (for free again) that those lungs emit 2.3 pounds of carbon dioxide a day. Multiply by world population and that’s 17.25 trillion pounds of carbon dioxide, which is much more than the 209 billion pounds of carbon dioxide that burning fossil fuels emits daily.

Poor math. It is 17 billion pounds. Not 17 trillion. So it is less than a tenth of the amount produced by burning fossil fuels

We’ll have plenty to give to the poor—$71 trillion. Oops, make that $69.5 trillion. (We forgot to subtract $1.5 billion in outstanding student loans.)

No. Taking 1.5 Billion from 71 Trillion is Not the same as taking 1.5 Trillion from 71 Trillion