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Humans exhale carbon dioxide at 4 percent volume

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You inhale an atmosphere with barely a fraction of a percent of carbon dioxide, yet you breathe it out at a vastly multiplied concentration. You are a highly efficient, fleshy little pollution factory constantly altering the chemical makeup of your living room.

Humans exhale carbon dioxide at 4 percent volume
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