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The classic pre-EPA slogan comes to mind: "the solution to pollution is dilution".

• munk-a 5mo ago
  The dosage makes the poison - but if it sticks around in the body dilution may slightly alleviate effects but at the cost of more widespread buildup. This is out of my field so I'm not certain if that's a concern here.
• Terr_ 5mo ago
  In some cases it still is, but we need to emphasize the exceptions, which can be rather serious. For example, we can hardly "dilute" CFCs or CO2 any more than we did, by putting them into a whopping 5.15×10^18 kg of the entire atmosphere of the Earth. Yet both still cause bad things, because there's no (sufficient) process to break them down or move them to a safe state.
  • xg15 5mo ago
    Is that so? The amount of atmosphere stays the same, but we're constantly adding more CO2. So wouldn't this continually reduce the dilution?
    • ta988 5mo ago
      the volume of CO2 is negliglible (ppms) and it uses often Oxygen from the air.
• Zigurd 5mo ago
  Accumulation makes the... what rhymes here?
  • Terr_ 5mo ago
    I like where you're going with this. "The solution to pollution is dilution, except when accumulation is a violation upon creation"?
  • imron 5mo ago
    Litigation
  • Wrongful8276 5mo ago
    The complication of this realization is bio-accumulation