Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity using deep ocean current

Re:Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity u... by Mindless2112 on Saturday June 04, 2022 @06:03PM (#31625532)

I'm not saying that CO₂ and wind turbines have a comparable effect on the climate. I'm saying that "it's small so it couldn't matter" is the same flawed thinking.

> Human CO2 emissions matter precisely because the math has exceeded change from natural causes.

Why? It's the significant detrimental impact of the human activity that's important, not how it compares to the amount or change from natural causes. (It doesn't even matter that it's human activity. If Earth were going to become inhospitable by entirely natural causes, that would still matter.)

> then maybe you might have a case.

I'm not making the case that wind turbines are harming the environment; that's just the example at hand. I'm making the case that casually dismissing (questions about) the potential impact of human activities is wrong.

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Re:Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity u... by tomc1985 on Saturday June 04, 2022 @08:49PM (#31626785)

My point is that the scale of pretty much everything we do is minuscule compared to carbon emissions. And, short of being more specific on what 'human activities' are in question, the negative tradeoffs are going to have to be far worse, in order to be a worse alternative than our current course of spewing CO2.

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