• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Only locally

    You make that sound like it isn’t an issue. Massive ocean die-offs in a localized area is still a very bad thing.

    There’s a reason why oil spills are treated with such seriousness. Globally, an oil spill is also not a problem.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It depends on how local we’re talking about. If you build a pipe out of the littoral zone into the ocean with multiple outputs you likely wouldn’t kill much of anything but a few plankton. The intake pipe is often worse than the output pipe for wildlife.

      For a place like, say, the the Persian Gulf, that uses oil for heat desal and gets their intake and output from a sea so it’s all littoral and doesn’t as quickly exchange it’s water with the ocean, of course it’s an environmental nightmare. It’s naturally saltier without desal because of the higher evaporation rate and small comparative inlet size of the straight of hormuz, but at this point its 25% saltier than the rest of the ocean thanks to that desal.

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        6 months ago

        Are you trying to spell literal? Not trying to be a dick, just unsure if you have a different word in mind.

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          6 months ago

          I misspelled strait, but I was referring to the shallows that contain the vast majority of ocean life due to ease of photosynthesis with littoral. Much of the Persian Gulf is within these shallows. In a lot of ways it acts like a salty inland sea that exchanges some of it’s saltier water with fresher water from the ocean, but that’s limited by the size of the strait of Hormuz.