• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Space is a priority so we can ignore climate change. Rockets put our many many plane flights worth of pollution, elon musk has done over 30,000 of them (mostly for StarLink). Quite a few ended up just dumping raw pollution and parts into the ocean.

    No price is paid but by the environment.

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      Rockets are launched so infrequently that their effect is negligible compared to other sources of pollution. They’re definitely still a problem (debris falling on populated areas is a concern), but the aviation industry burns a rocket launch worth of fuel a few times per minute.