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How are sea microplastics and climate change not related? Both involve fossil fuel materials being left somewhere they shouldn't when we are "done" with them.

• Ma8ee 4y ago
  In one case the fossil fuels contribute to climate change, in the other case it doesn’t.
  • stuaxo 4y ago
    They are both under a broader banner of pollution.
    • Ma8ee 4y ago
      And?
  • zeckalpha 4y ago
    Let me say that again: why don't you think the plastics are changing the climate?
    • Ma8ee 4y ago
      Because as long as you don't burn them, they don't release any gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. Could you explain any mechanism that make plastics in nature contribute to the climate catastrophe?