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[โ€“] pachrist@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's not real science, because the fire is not as harmful as the pollution or gasses, but you have to remember that most conservatives are so self involved they forget about other people and the scale of the problem

How many teenie tiny fires would it take to make the world a bit warmer?

A million? A billion? Maybe a trillion little fires.

There are 1.699B cars on the road. By conservative estimates, average time of the road per day is ~30 minutes. If we pretend that they're all 4 cylinder engines, and average 1500RPM, both low estimates, that engine fires 3000 times per minute. For 30 minutes a day. For 1.669B cars.

Over the course of a year that's 55,810,000,000,000 fires. 55.81 quadrillion. In one year.

And that's just cars. Not planes. Not trains. Not boats. Not power plants. Not even cow farts.

They know that there is some number that's too much. They know we've passed it.

[โ€“] naught101@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Most people don't really understand numbers with more that 5 or 6 0s