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SpaceX Triples Number of Rocket Launches in Two Years.
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Out of curiosity - how many megatons of carbon has that produced, and how many billionaires will all the starships carry when they've exploited the earth's resources and left all it's living creatures to die and escape to mars?
The carbon is not the problem.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/satellite-mega-constellations-could-jeopardize-ozone-hole-recovery
SpaceX launches in 2023 were about 0.02 megatons of CO2 directly. I don't know how fugitive emissions from fueling and defueling, especially on starship with methane.
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/13082/calculate-falcon-9-co2-emissions
200,000kg/launch, 100 launches.