Yossarian wrote:We’re reaching the point with this where the only way out is going to be the equivalent of a moonshot but on a global (or at least EU/US/China) scale. There are devices that can capture carbon from the air and store it, but we’d need hundreds of millions of them. We could make hundreds of millions of them, and quickly, if we chose to do so as a species.
Diluted Dante wrote:Yossarian wrote:We’re reaching the point with this where the only way out is going to be the equivalent of a moonshot but on a global (or at least EU/US/China) scale. There are devices that can capture carbon from the air and store it, but we’d need hundreds of millions of them. We could make hundreds of millions of them, and quickly, if we chose to do so as a species.
The main issue is so far, most of them are re-using the captured carbon as synthetic fuel. There's no incentive to sequester it, and the technology is expensive, so that's how they recoup costs.
LivDiv wrote:The Mail will publish anything people will click on.
No new cars, foreign holidays and cheap clothes and electronics is a huge leap from our current course of switching to electric cars, cycling and walking more and recycling a bit better. I mean, I think you're right, but that's a hard sales pitch for any politician to try.monkey wrote:Ban all planes. You really need people to see it like WW2. “What about my holiday to Crete?” Fuck you there’s a war on. “You want me to walk to work?” Fuck you there’s a war on. “I need my South Korean skin care products.” Fuck you there’s a war on. It’s going to need a big disaster for people in the West to see it that way. A big disaster involving white people, not an Indian village getting wiped out. New York under 2ft of water, thousands dead. That sort of thing. By the time one of those comes along though, it will probably be too late. It probably already is.
SpaceGazelle wrote:… people are going to shrug and ask, what's the point?
poprock wrote:When I learned the scale and speed of continuing coal-powered industrialisation in China, I noped out.
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