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Yeah no; I don't do 'quibbling definitions with sophists'. If you don't know what 'pollute' means, you're not fit to discourse with me. ๐๐
Classic troll move of refusing to engage when someone points out you're making no sense.
I think this is the Gaia quote they're talking about โ
What is your definition of pollution tho? How can there be pollution on a lifeless rocky planet?
Again, I don't do "quibbling definitions with sophists", and honestly this just reads as techno-woo made to justify leaving dead rovers and broken satellites in our wake. "Oh, it was already there in trace amounts so we can just leave our toys scattered around the playroom." If I had that kind of laissez-faire attitude towards say, Yellowstone, I'd be put out of the park and banned for life. The fuck happened to 'leave no trace'?
Who or what is harmed by a piece of lifeless metal on a piece of lifeless rock?
You said you're against sophistry, then you said Mars=Yellowstone