Plodcast You are the Carbon They Want to Reduce | (Ep. 418)
Mar 18, 2026
A spirited defense of deregulation and a celebration of rolling back greenhouse-gas rules. A case against treating human breathing as pollution and a critique of regulatory overreach. A theological dive into hamartiology and the New Testament concept of miasma as moral pollution. A warning about shallow faith, false conversion, and spiritual relapse. A warm recommendation of A Gentleman in Moscow as a gripping novel about life under communism.
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Human Carbon Framed As Regulatory Target
- Douglas Wilson argues that labeling human CO2 as pollutant grants the EPA control over everyday life like breathing.
- He calls the endangerment finding an engine of tyranny and celebrates its rollback as economic deregulatory stimulus by 'getting out of the way.'
Stimulate Economy By Cutting Regulatory Restraints
- Do favor deregulation when it removes government obstacles to private enterprise and energy production.
- Wilson says rescinding the finding will 'juice the economy' without handouts and let energy sectors breathe and expand.
CO2 As Part Of Mutual Life Cycle
- Wilson emphasizes CO2's ecological role: humans exhale CO2 which plants use, making the gas part of a mutual life cycle.
- He frames the plant-human exchange as God-ordained reciprocity: plants take CO2 and give oxygen back.
