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[_Microft]

The wording also suggests that polluting the sea would be more acceptable than polluting land area.

[Joker_vD → _Microft]

Well, the ocean dillutes whatever you dump into it to much lower concentrations than the rivers do when you dump something into their drainage basins.

[_Microft → Joker_vD]

I think we unsuccessfully conducted a similar experiment with the atmosphere already.

[userbinator → _Microft]

There's a huge difference between things like global CO2 emissions, and this single fire which is probably a tiny insignificant fraction of that.

[_Microft → userbinator]

The attitude that the oceans are huge and that it is just a minor event here or there that could not possibly affect the sea a lot is exactly the source of the problem. A fire here, a garbage patch there, some mercury from gold mining, ... it just adds up.

[qeternity → _Microft]

It adds up sure, but this is an issue of lesser evils.

It’s better to have a ton of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere than into my living room. That’s not to say either are good.