Re:Mining in Space Could Lead to Conflicts on Earth
by pavel_lishin on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @01:56PM
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Are you proposing we simply stop all manufacturing?
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Re:Mining in Space Could Lead to Conflicts on Earth
by EGreg on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @02:36PM
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I am proposing we slowly phase out mass producing products out of NON BIODEGRADABLE materials yes.
As for the Carbon - it doesnt matter how slowly we do it, we will still remove it all from the ground. It is a non renewable resource. Look at what we've done to slowly renewable resources like species - how many have gone extinct in the last 100 years? So yeah I think with carbon it's a foregone conclusion that we will floodthe atmosphere with it. But non biodegradable plastics etc. at least we can phase out.