Yeah, seems logical.
Meanwhile, it is Asia and Africa dumping those megatons of plastic into the ocean, not North America or Europe. Asians (outside of Japan or Korea) and Africans just throw trash onto the street. Even if there's organized pickup? They dump that directly into the nearest river.
Only way to combat it would be to create some kind of superstructure to geo engineer it.
But for that level of material, we'll probably require space resource extraction as doing it with ONLY earth based resources might do more harm than good.
That's false. It's going to linger until South America, Africa and most of Asia stop dumping all their trash into the rivers.
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Yeah, seems logical.
Meanwhile, it is Asia and Africa dumping those megatons of plastic into the ocean, not North America or Europe. Asians (outside of Japan or Korea) and Africans just throw trash onto the street. Even if there's organized pickup? They dump that directly into the nearest river.
The dams would just overflow with trash eventually and we'd be back to where we already are.
... glass dome?
More like glass them
Only way to combat it would be to create some kind of superstructure to geo engineer it.
But for that level of material, we'll probably require space resource extraction as doing it with ONLY earth based resources might do more harm than good.
"Could" doing an awful lot of heavy lifting in that headline.
They were saying millennia before, so merely one century seems like an absolute win. WOOD lasts for a century.
They're saying it spends a century at the surface. After that it sinks and continues to pollute just not at the surface.