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by naikrovek 1974 days ago
CFCs are not the only pollutants.

An alien society may produce pollutants which last a million years. Plastics can last millions of years.

Sufficient pollution could cause climate change severe enough to keep all kinds of things airborne for who knows how long. We are constantly surprised by what we learn about other worlds. It is silly to me to presume that anything we know about Earth pollution will be a given on a planet from another star system.

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I wish we could develop a technology to detect plastics across space.