Re:Jeff Bezos climate change plan unveiled – buy 100k electr...
by bryanlarsen on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:35PM
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> implying that we can address climate change by Consuming More Stuff
We certainly can address climate change by consuming more stuff. We could spend $100 - $200 per ton of carbon to sequester all of our carbon emissions. And it wouldn't wreck our economy to do so, the costs are similar to that of the Apollo missions or the war in Iraq, not the level of commitment that WW2 was. It would approximately double the price of gas if we paid for it the rational way.
Sequestration doesn't have all the secondary benefits that reduction has, like improvements in air quality, but it could be done.
We certainly can address climate change by consuming more stuff. We could spend $100 - $200 per ton of carbon to sequester all of our carbon emissions. And it wouldn't wreck our economy to do so, the costs are similar to that of the Apollo missions or the war in Iraq, not the level of commitment that WW2 was. It would approximately double the price of gas if we paid for it the rational way.
Sequestration doesn't have all the secondary benefits that reduction has, like improvements in air quality, but it could be done.