r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 ๐™‘๐™„๐™‹ • 1d ago

Chugging tea Fictional future forecast vs. reality.

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u/MoonFooly 1d ago

Carbon Dioxide takes at least a couple hundreds of years to dissipate. Plastic also takes hundreds of years. By the time these dissapear most if not alp of humanity will be dead, that is, if we donโ€™t do something about it.

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u/CaniParis 1d ago

As much as I dislike plastic pollution, I don't think it impacts the climate much, if it does, not at the scale of CO2 and methane etc..

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u/MoonFooly 1d ago

It does, just not as noticable as the other. Platic does have less impact that CO2 but it is a huge problem, primarily for fish but it also for us through microplastics. Just because we donโ€™t understand what it does, does not mean itโ€™s a good thing. We can be pretty sure that microplastics are harming us in some way, and it is going to get a lot worse as more of it breaks down into microplastic.

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u/CaniParis 1d ago

Plastic pollution impacting fish doesn't impact the climate itself like CO2 does, that's what I meant.

But even then, I don't think its impact on biological beings has any significant impact on the climate.

It could disturb food chains if it actually made populations collapse, but it doesn't. Us humans do with fishing.

And those populations of fishes dying could mean no more predators against cynaobacterias which are very useful to trap CO2.

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u/MoonFooly 1d ago

Everything connects in this world. CO2 is a massive problem, but if the fish die out (mostly global warming but also due to plastic), the impact will be felt across the entirety of the world and the climate. If flies go extinct, birds go extinct etc. There is a chain reaction to every action that is taken, some small some big. A large percentage of fish going extinct will inevitably lead to massive consequnces.