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Glench | 1 year ago

Glad to see other comments bringing this to light. As Saul Griffith likes to point out, physics indicates that stuffing CO2 back into the ground is not an easy or cost-effective job. Stopping it from entering the atmosphere is much simpler. Also Saul mentioned that the IPCC models have a disproportionate amount of faith in CO2 removal technologies which at this point is an unproven and uneconomical option and for physics-related reasons will probably remain so.

Also, there doesn't seem to be an appreciation of the speed at which we need to stop emissions to meet 1.5C or even 2C of warming. It's at the point where if we don't replace almost every car, furnace, stove, etc with its electric counterpart and power them with clean electricity (due to the continuous emissions of those machines for their lifetime, assuming no early retirement), we can guarantee breaching the 1.5C limit. We need a World War 2 level buy-in from government, industry, and consumers. I wish this was more widely known.

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