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Isn't it more akin in this case to worrying about too much carbon dioxide in the air?

• FartyMcFarter 3mo ago
  Why is it akin to that? Doesn't the salt come from the sea in the first place?
  • ceejayoz 3mo ago
    A more apt comparison than you realize. Most of the carbon we spew into the atmosphere came from the air. Ancient plants took it in via respiration.
    • FartyMcFarter 3mo ago
      That still doesn't make it a good comparison. The salt emitted by desalination plants is already in the sea now, it's not salt that went somewhere else.
      • parineum 3mo ago
        And the water we take out eventually goes back.