local enviromental impact is the issue with desalinization plants if done irresponsibly. big picture is not a problem really. the oceans recycle water on a scale that humans can't even imagine achieving.

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Originally posted by ogvh5150 You act as if the water we use doesn't make it way back into the ocean. Come on man what have you learned in basic biology?

As I said, I am not an expert in this issue, I was trying analogies. Yes, you're right. It doesnt really matter what they will come up with. By then the damage to the environment will be irreversible (isnt it the reason for plans for switching to this method?)

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Originally posted by ogvh5150 Lilith: Dump all that salt back into the ocean. The water you've just consumed makes it back to the ocean by way of evaporation in one form or another. The world is seventy-five per cent covered in water. Just complaining that the salty "residue" might do to plants and other forms of life is irresponsible disposal. If it came from the water it'll go back to the water. After all you've just drank a water molecule that most likely made it's journey through some guy in Australia. Or some elephant in India. Or some animal food. Or some plant. Or some iceberg.

On the other hand, salinization is very important, and a factor in cllimate change, so is the desalinization:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_conveyor_belt

"The thermohaline circulation plays an important role in supplying heat to the polar regions, and thus in regulating the amount of sea ice in these regions. Changes in the thermohaline circulation are thought to have significant impacts on the earth's radiation budget. Insofar as the thermohaline circulation governs the rate at which deep waters are exposed to the surface, it may also play an important role in determining the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. While it is often stated that the thermohaline circulation is the primary reason that Western Europe is so temperate, this is largely incorrect as Europe is warm mostly because it lies downwind of an ocean basin [3] . However, the thermohaline circulation does have a mild impact, warming Western Europe by about 2 °C relative to the similarly located west coast of Canada.

Large influxes of low density meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet is thought to have led to a disruption of deep water formation and subsidence in the extreme North Atlantic and caused the climate period in Europe known as the Younger Dryas."

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I meant the part about taken a bullet for the global team. If there are to be "drastic changes" then one of them be that people would have to be eliminated off this rock in order to achieve proper environmental sustainability.

What you don't get is that the pre-planned solution is for the genocide of the human race in order for saving the planet from it's most feared enemy, us. This global warming/cooling agenda is one way of giving people a perceived threat.

If you believe for one moment in your life that this agenda requires changes for the better and ignore the "final solution" then you are sadly inept at looking ahead of the future. A future that if more people like you continue should practice what you preach.

After all what is the solution to the problem of global warming/cooling/climate change if the human race is the cause of it?

So go ahead and take one for the team. We'll plant a tree atop your grave if it'll make you feel better.

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