posted in Asklemmy
What are you supposed to say to someone who believes climate change is real but won't accept that human activity contributes to it?
I tell people that burning a 100 million barrels of oil a day, everyday, has to have an impact.
Imagine how much exhaust that is everyday.
The idea that burning a million barrels of oil everyday would not have an impact on the atmosphere is absurd.
Replying to @zhkent@lemmy.today
Well without a real sense of the size of the atmosphere (which most people don’t have), that doesn’t really mean anything, other than it being a big number. Any impressively big number can be insignificant in relation to something big enough to easily absorb it.
However, we’ve added to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by 50%. I think that says it really is significant.