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Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:28PM (#38019679)
> Fossil fuels have - at the same time as the pollution - caused a huge improvement of living standards.

And before that we used Whale oil, which we got through a global slaughter of whales and we nearly drove them to extinction. Then it was time to move on.

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Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by gruez on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @09:50PM (#38020748)
There's a huge difference between migrating off something because there's something objectively better (oil is cleaner and cheaper compared to whale oil), and migrating off something for environmental reasons. The former doesn't require any sacrifices and will happen voluntarily. The same can't be said for the latter.
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Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by ClumsyPilot on Thursday October 26, 2023 @04:24PM (#38031261)
what do you mean by oil is cleaner? Whale oil is food, while petrochemicals are a poison
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