• zhkent@lemmy.today
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    21 hours ago

    I tell people that burning a 100 million barrels of oil a day, everyday, has to have an impact.

    Imagine how much exhaust that is everyday.

    The idea that burning a million barrels of oil everyday would not have an impact on the atmosphere is absurd.

    • danielfm123@lemmy.zip
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      3 hours ago

      I think CO2 is good for life, but cement in cities, deforestation and the heat produce by burninf fuel must be bad.

      I don’t trust too much the CO2 crisis, we got other pollution like micropastics and eternal chemicals I believe are more serious.

      Anyways I still commute by public transport even though I have a company car with petrol, everyone can help.

    • blackbrook@lemmy.ml
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      7 hours ago

      Well without a real sense of the size of the atmosphere (which most people don’t have), that doesn’t really mean anything, other than it being a big number. Any impressively big number can be insignificant in relation to something big enough to easily absorb it.

      However, we’ve added to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by 50%. I think that says it really is significant.