Hint:
Who says CO2 is polluting the atmosphere at all? CO2 isn’t a pollutant; it’s plant food. Are people against green plants?
I cannot answer that, but I assume it must be burned to produce CO2, otherwise maybe it is like crude oil. It would surprise people that Twice an Exxon Valdez spill worth of oil seeps into the Gulf of Mexico every year [https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000127082228.htm] out of four categories: natural seeps, petroleum extraction, petroleum transportation, and petroleum consumption. Of these, seeps are by far the single largest source, accounting for nearly half of all the petroleum compounds released to the ocean worldwide each year. [https://www.whoi.edu/oilinocean/page.do?pid=51878]