Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil?
by mycall on Sunday July 26, 2020 @09:06PM
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> There are nearly 8 billion people on this planet.
It is not a complex problem, this is the root cause.
Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil?
by beenBoutIT on Monday July 27, 2020 @01:51AM
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If that number was rolled back to 4 billion (ethically, somehow) wouldn't that be sufficient to reverse climate change?
Re:What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil?
by Johnjonjoan on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:15AM
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I don't think it's a given we can reverse or even stop climate change. There are many positive feedback loops going on right now.
AFAIK neither the Paris accords or any climate management proposals entertain the idea of stopping climate change.
Edit: positive feedback loops are things like the melting ice caps. Less sunlight is reflected back to space by the white ice which means more is absorbed by the dark sea. This causes the earth to warm and more of the ice caps to melt....
In climate science there is something called the tipping point. This is when mechanisms like positive feedback will make drastic climate change inevitable (with current technology).
When the tipping point will happen is up for debate. IMO the idea that we have already passed the tipping point is also up for debate.
This is a complex problem. Almost all solutions are worth trying. Most of them are going to be required. There does not need to be a winnowing of solutions. We just need to fucking start rolling them out.
I'm so over the argument that something won't be good enough.
No fucking shit.
Nothing is going to be good enough, nothing is going to be potent enough to solve how monumentally we screwed the environment up.