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Re:Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide... by ECA_stax on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @12:04AM (#24405091)
> Population growth hasn't been the problem for decades.

Of course it is. Populations always eventually demand development, aka "westernization". So as the world population grows, so does the consumption.

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Re:Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide... by seanwilson on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:00AM (#24406176)
> So as the world population grows, so does the consumption.

This includes dairy + meat consumption, where about 70 billion animals are farmed for food each year right now. When someone brings up that humans are overpopulating the planet, I've never heard someone mention that overpopulating the planet with livestock is also an issue.

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Re:Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide... by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:49AM (#24407137)
Nonsense.

Someone always brings up agricultural emissions.

The Australian government talks about it directly here:

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/ag-farm-food/climatechange/au...

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