A proposed data center in northwestern Alberta could generate dozens of atomic bombs worth of heat every day.

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    3 days ago

    Those have a completely different reason, not climate change. Single use plastics keep finding their way into our oceans.

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      3 days ago

      Technically, they’re made of fossil oil, part of the Big Oil sector. Plastics are their fallback.

      More technically, plastics sinking to the bottom of oceans or buried underground are actually a carbon sink. Plastics will emit GHGs like carbon dioxide and methane if they degrade. So we really need to stop using straws entirely.