Human activities over the years have contributed massively to climate change all around the world. From the fumes from our cars to the heavy industrial emission of CO₂ and other poisonous gases into the atmosphere, not forgetting the destruction of waterbodies and vegetation due to urbanization and some illegal exploitation of the environment. I am not talking about any of these though. My main focus is on breathing.

Averagely, a normal human being breathes 15 – 25 times per minute. At rest, a normal human being breathes 8 – 15 times per minute. What this means is that, the more times we breathe, the more oxygen we take into our system and vice versa, the more Carbon Dioxide we exhale into the environment. 

Even though there is no proven proof that breathing actually affects climate change, the growing number of human beings in the world could actually in some way contribute to climate change. Breathing contributes about 7% of Global emission of the greenhouse gas CO₂. 7% is actually minute, considering that there is a whole 93% which is way bigger than 7%. But the irony is that, without this 7% it would not have been 100%. 

All I mean to say is that, whether small or big, breathing contributes to climate change. And since we cannot actually stop or control this, we could focus on controlling the artificial means of emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which constitutes almost 90% of the global emission of the gas. 

It is amazing how a natural activity such as breathing which is very essential for survival of living things in its own way contributes to climate change. That notwithstanding, breathe and breathe well, breathe safely and wear a nose mask whenever you want to go somewhere as lockdowns are being gradually lifted.