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How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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The Myth of Plastic Recycling. (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Would you say that those things are actually really important and NEED to be made of plastic? I wonder if Aeri would account for that possibility

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not the ultimate authority on all things, but I'd question if these things need to be made of plastic.

Syringes are made out of things like Borosilicate glass, Stainless steel, autoclaves and cases exist.

It would also be way less big a deal if we just didn't have as much plastic in general.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It would be a lot more costly to make syringes out of glass/steel for single-use types.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Counterpoint, how much is cancer treatment for (research sounds, papers rustling)... Seven thousand people†?

Multiply that by... some studies show costs of cancer treatment as high as $173,831 annually. 1,216,817,000? Would it cost more than 1.2 billion dollars a year to stop making everything out of plastic? This is just like, napkin ass math I'm not pretending to be a huge know it all or anything by the way. Personally I think that yes, we should stop making things out of poison, even if it costs more money.

†A recent study estimated that PFAS contamination in drinking water contributes to more than 6,800 cancer cases each year in the United States.