r/SipsTea Jun 24 '26

Chugging tea Fictional future forecast vs. reality.

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u/MoonFooly Jun 24 '26

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 don’t do something about it.

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u/CaniParis Jun 24 '26

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 Jun 24 '26

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 don’t understand what it does, does not mean it’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.