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Why is it akin to that? Doesn't the salt come from the sea in the first place?

• ceejayoz 4mo ago
  A 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 ago
    That 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 ago
      And the water we take out eventually goes back.