[FartyMcFarter]

Yeah. Worrying about salt in the sea is like worrying about oxygen in the air. Can too much oxygen in the air sometimes be a problem? Yeah, in some corner cases. Is it a major problem that we can't solve? Not at all.

[0xFF0123]

Isn't it more akin in this case to worrying about too much carbon dioxide in the air?

[FartyMcFarter]

Why is it akin to that? Doesn't the salt come from the sea in the first place?

[ceejayoz]

A more apt comparison than you realize.

Most of the carbon we spew into the atmosphere came from the air. Ancient plants took it in via respiration.

[FartyMcFarter]

That still doesn't make it a good comparison. The salt emitted by desalination plants is already in the sea now, it's not salt that went somewhere else.

[parineum]

And the water we take out eventually goes back.

[mejutoco]

That makes sense to me. At the same time I know the mediterranean sea is heating up more because it cannot move heat out quick enough. I dont know of any mediterranean air, so I believe more closed water zones would behave different than, lets say, the atlantic ocean.