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Easy peasy. Just launch some orbital solar powered lasers.

Carbon emissions and space junk is like the least of our problems. We got god only knows what leaking into the soil and drinking waters. Microplastics everywhere. Cancer causing gasses and potentially invisible waves between all our devices doing who knows what to our longterm health.

It doesn't matter what you do personally. Big unregulated corporations have decided to just do whatever they want and you're going to get genetically fucked just by existing on the same planet as them.

It's quite possible that a common "Great Filter" is space debris. Like it could be such a problem that it routinely keeps civilizations confined to their home planet.

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I guess a cloud of hot vapor hits softer than a solid

It may shock you that the US isn’t the worst at all bad things.

And they never reference the study's of the actual garbage that figure out the origins. You can all guess the most common origin.

If I wouldn’t have read the title, would’ve sworn that was an actual sea creature.

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It won't, it will get ignored until it's unsolvable

Does not plastic pollution reach an unprecedented level every single day? It's not like any day in the planet we stop dumping plastic on that everyday there's more plastic dumped in the planet everyday is an unprecedented amount of litter and trash and pollution created by plastic due to the human.

I mean if these little scraps collide and fall to earth who’s responsible? Are they just gonna hit the Earth as shrapnel?

Sure, bcuz it worked so well with ocean, land and air pollution…

But then we would miss the opportunity for Space junk athletes and competitions.

Sweet now many of the concerned and worried job seekers could actually get hired.

The most effective way to implement this is to have an agreement where every new launch pays a fee based on the orbital debris potential of what they're launching. So that would factor in things like what orbit they are going to, how many objects, what size, what the potential is for explosions, and what their capability is to self de-orbit. The fees collected from new launches should be used to establish bounties for cleaning up the most hazardous objects in the most sensitive places. Let the bounties be collected by whoever gets there first. Let market forces figure out the most efficient method of collecting the bounties.

To stay in low earth orbit you'd basically have to be going as fast as everything else, so it's kind of a moot point to say you have to catch it

Actually they have been proposing using lasers for a while now and it seems promising: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51946228_Removing_Orbital_Debris_with_Lasers

While using gas would work too, it rapidly disperses, requiring an enormous supply and potentially dragging down working spacecraft too.

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It's unprecedents, all the way down.

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The problem is go tell a country like China to stop polluting. Waste of time. If the United States try’s to be green friendly it will only lose power as a nation while making little to no impact on the worlds total pollution level.

You accidentally blow up one solar system and they never let you hear the end of it!

The Chinese are going to have much bigger problems in the next couple decades to worry about than winning medals.