Billionaires in space - make climate worse on Earth

 

Time magazine provides an insight into what increasing the number of launches to sub-space and orbital space could do to Earth's environment.

As one might suspect, though they're going up, there's no climate upside.

Billionaires Are Racing to Space—and the Climate is Paying the Price

"But according to a new study published this month in the journal Earth’s Future, all the new joyriding could come at a steep environmental price. The more rockets that get launched, the more black soot gets injected into the upper atmosphere, not to mention pollutants including nitrogen oxides, aluminum oxide, hydrochloric acid, and chlorine, as well as water vapor. Together, all of that output not only contributes to global warming but also to the depletion of the ozone layer."

Now, I'd still like to live to see the first widely- and over-publicized confirmation of sexual intercourse in space, so we'll have to keep (ahem) firing.  But maybe we can look at better ways to get it up, er, get rockets into space.