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To a certain extent yes.One of the most disingenuous things the global warming crowd does is conflate carbon dioxide with actual air pollution. Yes, if you only breathed CO2, you'd die, but that's true of literally any gas or gas mixture without oxygen, and there's pretty much no way that humans could remove all oxygen and replace it with CO2, barring the complete and total destruction of all photosynthetic life (and then we have bigger problems). CO2 is vital for the health of our planet, and I've seen studies that have shown that we've actually been running below the levels that most plants would like for some time now, which is why there's been an increase in greenery worldwide, not the global desertification the doomsayers would have you believe.
Carbon dioxide is natural, and plants do need carbon dioxide to live. Breathing in carbon dioxide at the levels we have now or will have in 200 years will not harm us. The problem is that a rise in the levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide along with other greenhouse gases (eg methane, sulphur dioxide, etc) causes more heat from the sun to get trapped in our atmosphere, which causes the average temperature of the earth to rise, leading to climate change.
Air pollution is a completely different thing to global warming. Yes, environmentalists tackle both, and yes, things like the Green New Deal proposals do treat both of them as being similar because they come from the same sources, but that doesn't mean that they are the same - air pollution's caused by things like particulates while climate change is mainly caused by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.
What Moviebob ignores when he says stuff like this is that if you are going to get rid of people's jobs to help stop climate change (which, like as not, is necessary) then you need to provide green jobs for them or deal with the consequences of sacking lots of people.
"But they don't need jobs - I can get a robot to bring Amazon packages to my door!" does not do that. However, it does increase the chances of Commissar Cletus and his friend Jamal coming around to have a word with you.
To be honest, seeing Amazon try to repossess Blob's robofeet would be pretty funny.