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> It's actually only a challenge in shallow water that doesn't move, which if you think about it isn't that surprising. If you pump it out a bit further, you qu
by bmitc 3y ago
> It's actually only a challenge in shallow water that doesn't move, which if you think about it isn't that surprising. If you pump it out a bit further, you quite literally have a whole ocean to dilute the salt in.
What do the studies say what the effects of stripping water from the oceans and increasig the concentration of salt and other things are?
- dflock 3y agoAll the water we take out of the ocean ends up back there after a while, as part of the water cycle, we just borrow it for a bit.
- bmitc 3y agoYea, but it's different. For example, we have harmed ecosystems by our flood, erosion, etc. control of rivers. They're supposed to move, but we don't let them, and that has detrimental downstream, figuratively and literally, effects. And it's because we view rivers as just a vessel or tract of water rather than as part of a system. Analogously, the ocean is not just a bucket of water. Coastal ecosystems are particularly sensitive and are already at a tipping point. Are they meant to have bits of it pumped out, filtered, and everything but the water dumped back in? I have been downvoted here, but is it really a bad thing to attempt to understand things a bit better? Before we solve one problem by creating another problem, something humans are really good at?