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This thread seems to be confusing climate change / carbon (dioxide) with local pollution. climate change / carbon (dioxide) and carbon taxes are about long-ter

by gowld 7y ago

This thread seems to be confusing climate change / carbon (dioxide) with local pollution. climate change / carbon (dioxide) and carbon taxes are about long-term temperature change due to C02 concentration and the effects of that. COVID-19 isn't changing that in 1 year. Local pollution is caused by burning gasoline and factory smoke.

TeMPOraL 7y ago
I was talking both. They're related - local pollution does local damage to the environment; climate change is bad because it does damage to the environment everywhere simultaneously. I don't expect COVID-19 to show up too strongly in temperature graphs, but I hope some of its effects show up somewhere with large enough effect size that we have a statistically significant dip in the chart to point to as direct evidence that human activity is causing this, and changes are meaningful to fixing it.
- jsjw7sbw 7y ago
  Why does global warming damage the environment everywhere?
  - ebcode 7y ago
    because environments everywhere have adapted to a rhythm of temperature that will no longer exist due to global warming. a good definition of damage is "harmful change."
Ericson2314 7y ago
Yes, but Cars are the intersection of the two. That's a big intersection.