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Re:Climate geoengineering via stratospheric aerosol injection by abraae on Saturday November 05, 2022 @09:23AM (#33481226)
> If you seek any goods or services in today's world, if you use any aspect of industrial civilization, you're contributing to the warming of the planet.

That's not always true.

My neighbours are true eco warriors. They have planted literally hundreds of acres of trees and they live a carbon negative life. Granted, they are unusual, but it is not true that everyone is contributing. Just 99% of us.

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Re:Climate geoengineering via stratospheric aerosol injection by civilized on Saturday November 05, 2022 @09:55AM (#33481504)
Unless they're caring for those hundreds of acres of trees, a lot of them are probably dead.

Carbon accounting and the real world aren't quite the same, and the bias is always toward underestimating someone's CO2 footprint and overestimating the impact of mitigations.

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Re:Climate geoengineering via stratospheric aerosol injection by abraae on Saturday November 05, 2022 @10:02AM (#33481568)
What? I can see their property from mine and it's a rich forest thanks largely to their work. I don't understand where you are coming from.
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Re:Climate geoengineering via stratospheric aerosol injection by civilized on Saturday November 05, 2022 @11:34AM (#33482445)
That's great, but most people don't have hundreds of acres of empty land to plant trees on.
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