Not all pollution even is warming. If you dump tons of microplastics into water, nothing will warm up (compared to burning them) but it would be a different cat

Not all pollution even is warming. If you dump tons of microplastics into water, nothing will warm up (compared to burning them) but it would be a different catastrophe. Heck, creating certain kinds of waste would even prevent global warming, e.g. nuclear - and would do nothing to energy balance.