cymbal_king@lemmy.worldtoAsk Science@lemmy.world•If life never emerged on Earth, would the continents still be more or less the same today? In other words, does life affect the formation and movement of continents significantly?English
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2 months agoAdding all of that coal and limestone trapped a lot of carbon underground. If that carbon was CO2 instead, the Earth would be much hotter. Perhaps hotter than the boiling point of water and thus there would be no ocean between the continents, like Venus.
Plastic production is also one of the dirtiest industries in terms of air and water pollution… I doubt China has strong enough environmental standards