I'm not sure what this means. I think we could drop New York City in one of the Great Lakes with little problem... or drop Moscow in Lake Baikal if you prefer.
https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/volume-of-sphere-...
A 35 million cubic kilometer sphere would be roughly 400km across. NYC is big, but not that big.
Your number of 35 million cubic kilometers includes the Antarctic ice sheet, but the definition of "fresh surface water" sounds to me like it intends to exclude the ice sheets from the list.
[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28volume+of+great+lake...
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/scientists-grow-plants-...
Is this true? Grade school was full of Johnny Appleseed facts when I was a kid.
It's sort of like CO2 production. Many people get encouraged to do their nearly symbolic reduction "contribution", while real CO2 production remains the same or rises since something like 80% of all emissions are generated by just a few dozen corporations globally.
Which ones?
> Many people get encouraged to do their nearly symbolic reduction "contribution"
I think that's a fallacy of the climate change denier crowd, who go from 'it's not happening' to 'humans aren't causing it' to 'there's nothing we can do about it' or 'there is nothing you can do about it'. It's also a fallacy of the right that collective action by the left is powerless - it's an effective fallacy, because many on the left believe it!
What amount of GHG emissions is from consumers?
Why not try some of your own googling too?
As for the companies in question. I was off on the percentage but here:
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...
Also, i'm not a "climate change denier" (a loaded, idiotic and ideological phrase to begin with, especially because it often gets used when someone even debates elements of something so complex as climate change) But I do think that one of the petro/gas/plastics corporate world's great PR tricks was to throw the mass media onus on consumer CO2 emissions and help create a massive consumer guilt campaign about individual activity while happily continuing to pollute on a literally industrial scale.
This is not to say that individuals should be wasteful and reckless in their personal environmental habits, but idiocies like mass anti-straw campaigns are partly absurd in comparison to industrial atmospheric contamination and etc.
Yes, much of it ultimately ties into consumer consumption, but much more of the blame should also tie into corporate emissions creation.
It was the advertisement agency Ogilvy and Mather who invented the carbon footprint for BP.
Sometimes it's frightening how easily gullible people are.
I don’t know what that says about us. It doesn’t make me feel good though.
Once youve drunk ph adjusted (higher alkalinity) from a 4 cartridge RO water filter...everything tastes like shit.
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