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RE: FLOOD A DESERT - GROW ALGAE - SAVE EARTH - Daily Spigot 11/12/18

in #poetry6 years ago

Great approach on global warming front. But focusing only on one aspect of any problem tend to have disastrous side-effects, think of polythene everyone focused on it being cheap, think of CFCs for refrigeration which caused holes in ozone. With that I would argue that this idea has to studied further for its viability (any scientists here that are in this field?).
Thanks for sharing a nice article.

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Yes, there definitely needs to be reduced carbon going into the atmosphere, and efforts on that front have been steady and improving. These ingenious new methods of removing carbon from our atmosphere just don't get much attention it seems. We need a way to clean up our atmosphere because just ending all carbon emissions won't solve the problem. I feel a duty to write about them, and hope the info on this angle gets out there to spur awareness and more support for further testing and development.

The ozone hole would probably have been closed by now, if China hadn't been dumping the CFCs for the past several years in secret, and in defiance of the worldwide ban. I doubt if they've even stopped now that they've been outed as the country that's been the origin of illegal releases (and they may still be releasing, for all we know). I haven't seen any news of China saying, "Oh gee, our bad. We'll take care of that and put an end to it right now!" I've only seen the recent reports that China was the guilty country.

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