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I feel like the CO2 footprint for living there must be super high
by 11235813213455 4y ago
I feel like the CO2 footprint for living there must be super high
- aflag 4y agoWhich just makes Antarctica a more hospitable place in the long term.
- 11235813213455 4y agosure but not with 10 billion people, same for Siberia, easy to forget it's not as large as it looks in flattened maps
- madaxe_again 4y agoYup. Most stations are diesel powered - McMurdo is no exception, and their brief experiment with nuclear power there was a total disaster.
- etrautmann 4y agoYes - though since much of the science that's performed there is focused on climate, it may be a worthwhile tradeoff. Much like the carbon invested to fly world leaders around - small relative to its global importance.