Maybe I’d better back off the hot air cult...in hopes that it’ll play itself out...
the algoreacle gets his religion so fired up they eventually come to the conclusions:
humans emit CO2,
CO2 is evil
the only way out is mass suicide and the algoreacle
is leading them through this darkness to utopia and setting the example for all of them.
It’s a more accurate description of their religion to state that only the elite should be able to emit CO2.