[2021] Best ways to pollute the world?

Originally posted by Hellcleaver

In my opinion, devs should boost pollution of bloomery, doesn't make sense that blast furnace making a lot of more pollution.

Originally posted by t6jesse

It's really hard to pollute meaningfully. One server I was in a group of three that dominated smelting and upper-tier manufacturing. We kept all our tailings aboveground in stockpiles because we had nowhere else to put them yet and it did very little damage, and recovered completely after just a few days.

And as far as CO2 I've still never seen a server exceed what the plants could remove

Edit: thr most ecological damage I've ever actually seen is people almost wiping out alligators because there's so few of them anyways

We were even chopping down old growth redwoods exclusively and it made no real difference. I think it was a 2 km2 world