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What goes up must come back down as everyone else's problem.
means The act of releasing or sending out something — gases, light, radiation, or sound — into the surrounding world.
from From Latin 'emissio,' the act of sending out, from 'emittere' — 'e-' (out) plus 'mittere' (to send), the same restless verb that gives us 'missile,' 'mission,' and 'dismiss.' At root it simply means to let something fly free; only later did we attach it to the smoke and fumes we'd rather not own.
- invisible weight
- CO2 is heavier than air despite being unseen
- ancient carbon
- Burning releases carbon locked away for millions of years
- per breath
- Humans exhale about a kilogram of CO2 daily
- trading game
- Companies buy and sell rights to pollute
- scope three
- Most emissions hide outside a company's own walls
volkswagen dieselgate — 11 million cars recalled for nitrogen oxide emissions cheating scandal, 2015
london great smog — 4,000+ deaths from coal emission fog event in december 1952
chernobyl radioactive release — 400 times more radiation than hiroshima released across ukraine, soviet union, 1986