Posted on 01/16/2025 10:55:55 AM PST by algore
A Washington Democrat hopes to study the impact of medical anesthesia on climate change. The goal is to address the environmental impact of the anesthetic gases used in medical, dental and veterinary practices.
The bill said the state could prohibit the manufacture, distribution, sale or use of anesthetic gases.
Senate Bill 5236 orders the Department of Ecology to commission a study of anesthetic gases, including desflurane, isoflurane, sevoflurane, halothane and nitrous oxide because they are recognized as potent greenhouse gases contributing to climate change.
The study must determine the extent to which the gases are used in Washington, provide an estimate of the emissions from anesthesia, and recommend measures to either reduce or completely eliminate emissions from these gases.
“(Department of Ecology) must submit recommendations to the appropriate committees of the legislature regarding any further statutory changes needed in order to appropriately and effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with the use of anesthetic gases, including any recommendations to prohibit the manufacture, distribution, sale or use of specific anesthetic gases,” the law states.
This is environmentalism at its most extreme. It’s enough to get even Greta Thunberg to laugh at this.
Neither Washington nor the country has a climate change problem associated with anesthesia in any way, shape or form. In fact, there’s not even a global problem tied to anesthesia.
Yet the legislation said it’s “prudent not to overlook meaningful opportunities to reduce emissions of other types of greenhouse gases from more niche sources such as anesthetic gases.”
According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists, anesthetic gases are only estimated to contribute between 0.01% and 0.1% of total global greenhouse gas emissions.
In clinical healthcare settings, they only represent 3% of emissions nationwide. The numbers show the emissions to be negligible globally and nationally.
The data is clear. Even if you completely banned anesthesia in Washington, giving a wooden stick or leather strap to bite on during surgery or downing shots of moonshine while having wisdom teeth removed, there would be no impact on climate change.
Torturing people and animals....we know the real reason why...
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”
George Orwell
I'm guessing some contributor is marketing a less effective, riskier, or more expensive alternative.
These climate freak zombies are out of control. In 20 years they’ll be sacrificing humans to bring the rain. They are demented, vicious pagans.
we will just have to let the nurse hit us over the head with a hammer
They already SACRIFICE HUMAN BABIES!
I yawned after reading this report. So boringly predictable it almost put me to sleep.
The purpose of this report is if we cut some other so called cause of “global warming”, the ecoelites will magnanimously allow us to utilize medical anesthesia. So very noble of them.
I like the name “ecoelites”.
If we send them all on a mission to explore the sun we could save our planet!
Let them be the first
Interestingly, [sponsor Vandana] Slatter is a licensed pharmacist with more than 20 years of experience as a clinical scientist at major biotech and pharmaceutical companies, including Amgen and Pharmacia/Pfizer. Does she have insider knowledge about potential anesthesia alternatives that haven’t been disclosed?
That might make investment in such alternatives rather lucrative with state law forcing the consumer to use them, mightn't it? I hope the reporter pursues that line of inquiry.
The US has about 100 million bovines and about 3 million square miles.
Do you really expect me to believe one belching bull or cow per 20 acres could impact the climate?
A Washington Democrat.
Who? Who is this stupid or corrupt? Name names.
Even the little guys want a little bit of the kickback action.
The movie ‘Master and Commander’ has a nice scene of what we have to look forward to when it comes to surgery without anesthesia. Surgeons will once again have to focus on speed rather than accuracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJEKdfmSmrA
Start a zero-anesthesia surgical procedure trial, with THEM as the cohort.
I’m so damn sick of these wicked bastards.
Hey, this open heart surgery won’t hurt a bit ... we promise ... but if it does you can’t sue us ... so just suck it up wimp
Washington state offers assisted suicide. If this rep and his/her fellow travelers availed themselves of it the results would be better for the climate than this bill can accomplish.
Good catch
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