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But it's OK to deplete oceans, equatorial rainforests, and keep synthesizing everything?

Destruction of rain forests is bad. No one is depleting the oceans. Synthesis is not bad.

Tenpoundbass says

But it's OK to deplete oceans, equatorial rainforests, and keep synthesizing everything?

Not saying that at all. That's a different argument and of course would agree that any kind of artificial environmental destruction is not a good thing. We as humans will always have a footprint, but we should take proactive steps to minimize that footprint as much as possible.

Don't call yourselves Scientists, you're only Theoretical practitioners, of political law.
YesYNot says

Synthesis is not bad.

This! And that process just happens naturally with no bad byproducts?
The oceans and rivers are full of microbeads, and soon the air will be full of nanotubes.

There was an interesting part in the second Freakonomics book about how the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo threw so much ash in the air that the word actually cooled back to the level of 100 years ago briefly.

They also point out that global warming may indirectly also be due to humans simply not putting as much particulate matter into the air as 100 years ago.

Tenpoundbass says

The oceans and rivers are full of microbeads, and soon the air will be full of nanotubes.

That's called pollution. Co2 is acidifying it too. The only depletion is in the fish stock.

rando says

global warming may indirectly also be due to humans simply not putting as much particulate matter into

That explains the reversal of the cooling period. I've posted about that before. It doesn't explain the dramatic warming of the last 150 years.

YesYNot says

The only depletion is in the fish stock.

We're killing off aquatic mammals with Sonar pollution, Chemtrails are eradicating whole flocks of birds, the headlines keeps blaming global warming.