You seem to have glossed over his last paragraph. No one's disputing that the ocean can sink the salt if the salt is evenly distributed. Trouble comes if that's

You seem to have glossed over his last paragraph. No one's disputing that the ocean can sink the salt if the salt is evenly distributed. Trouble comes if that's not done properly and we get local ecosystems poisened by high salinity. Which if you think about it, is pretty easy to imagine from these plants pumping the salt to the nearest coastline.