I came across the above photo on Reddit the other day (original link here). As one Redditor so aptly put it, “The stupid, it burns!!!” Interestingly, there are multiple layers of stupid here. Like a giant stupid onion. Leaving aside the fact that water dumped into a sink would eventually wash back into the ocean, how many buckets of water would each Earthling need to dump to cancel out the rising sea levels?
# of buckets = (total volume) / [ (volume per bucket per person) × (number of people)]
= (3.0×1013 m3) / [ (50 L per bucket per person) × (6.7×109 people)]
= 90,000 buckets.
Even neglecting the fact that the water will just wash back into the ocean, this method would still require every person on the planet to dump 90,000 buckets of sea water down their sink. As Shakespeare might once have said, "The stupid, it doth burn."
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