World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions (2015) [pdf]

Re:World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissio... by ddxxdd on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:58PM (#19996432)

That technology has existed for billions of years: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/planting-1-2-trillion-trees-cou...

I personally calculated that planting trees would be thousands of times more cost-effective than driving Tesla vehicles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19714034

Cutting down a fraction of industrial activity- which represents a fraction of human-made CO2 output, which is only about 5% of mother nature's CO2 output- seems a lot less efficient than improving upon mother nature's own carbon sequestration schemes. It's better to sequester potentially all of the CO2 in the atmosphere instead of targeting a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of atmospheric CO2

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Re:World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissio... by aeternus on Thursday May 23, 2019 @07:45PM (#19997127)

Yes, I'm not sure why so many people attempt to shame people into using less energy. That strategy has a long history of not working.

The answer has to be to apply technology. Cleaner energy generation and new (or old) methods to sequester CO2.

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