NeeAnah 🇵🇷"The May 28, 2026, New Glenn explosion highlights the direct ecological damage caused by private space flight, scattering hazardous wreckage into the Atlantic Ocean, endangering Florida's coastal marine life, and threatening fragile ecosystems with toxic firefighting runoff. Beyond the immediate local contamination, these high-altitude failures inject massive amounts of greenhouse gases, water vapor, and particulates directly into the upper atmosphere, accelerating climate forcing and ozone depletion. Critics argue that billionaires must halt these volatile ventures because the immense carbon footprint and environmental degradation of private satellite and tourism races disproportionately harm the planet's climate health for corporate profit."
Here's another example of another launch in 2023 that went wrong: https://bbc.com/future/article/20240627-the-environmental-cost-of-rocket-launches
This needs to stop!
#environment #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalJustice #article #EcologicalDisaster
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