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Yeah. Worrying about salt in the sea is like worrying about oxygen in the air. Can too much oxygen in the air sometimes be a problem? Yeah, in some corner cases
by FartyMcFarter 4mo ago
Yeah. Worrying about salt in the sea is like worrying about oxygen in the air. Can too much oxygen in the air sometimes be a problem? Yeah, in some corner cases. Is it a major problem that we can't solve? Not at all.
- mejutoco 4mo agoThat makes sense to me. At the same time I know the mediterranean sea is heating up more because it cannot move heat out quick enough. I dont know of any mediterranean air, so I believe more closed water zones would behave different than, lets say, the atlantic ocean.
- 0xFF0123 4mo agoIsn't it more akin in this case to worrying about too much carbon dioxide in the air?
- FartyMcFarter 4mo agoWhy is it akin to that? Doesn't the salt come from the sea in the first place?
- ceejayoz 4mo agoA more apt comparison than you realize. Most of the carbon we spew into the atmosphere came from the air. Ancient plants took it in via respiration.
- FartyMcFarter 4mo agoThat still doesn't make it a good comparison. The salt emitted by desalination plants is already in the sea now, it's not salt that went somewhere else.
- parineum 4mo agoAnd the water we take out eventually goes back.
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