Arguing about possible cascade effects of brine disposal from large scale desalinization that are are not proven or not even studied is the definition of FUD and BS.

Look kid, I have been an environmentalist well before you were born and well before the whole movement become hijacked by law firms, media clickbait’s and politicians, protested pesticides and antibiotics well before it seems normal to do so but you or nobody should simply clump everything up in the same basket just because it has a possibility of harm even if it is an unmeasurable one.

Ecology is about resources and understanding If the human interaction with the environment but, most of all, is a quantitative discipline, like engineering.

We do not need any more demagogues or politicians but sound minded people and defendable data for any claim we make.

In the Gulf of Mexico there is an exposed salt deposit underwater that is worth several millions years of brine accumulation from providing 100 liters of water to 10 billions humans every day.

And it made by the exact same brine because was the effect of millions years of deposits of sea salts.

Any time an earthquake hits that region, an equivalent amount of many years of best desalination plants in the world gets released and change the ecosystem.

We need to stop shooting ourselves in the foot fighting every single insignificant battle and totally losing the war.

We were manipulated enough to kill the nuclear energy in the ‘70, did we not learn anything ?