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Re:Fighting climate change may be cheaper and more beneficia... by AlanSE on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @08:22AM (#20401248)
The atmosphere can absorb it, but many ecosystems (the important ones for people) cannot survive the resulting changes in climate.
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Re:Fighting climate change may be cheaper and more beneficia... by bryanlarsen on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @08:33AM (#20401322)
Of course.

I tried adding a similar caveat to my message, but my feeble attempts muddied my simple message. Even your caveat is slightly over-simplified because there's a significant time component: most ecosystems would probably be OK if the oil was burned over a few million years rather than a few decades.

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