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Making the Good into the enemy of the Perfect, yet again. We all generally understand that the adoption of Carbon Removal will probably mean polluting industries are theoretically slower to phase out. What concern over that ignores is the much more realistic understanding that those polluting industries aren't actually going to phase out in a sufficiently timely manner (if ever) even without carbon removal. We can't afford to hold out for perfect solutions at the expense of partial fixes, because those perfect solutions are never going to happen. We need to take what we can get while it might stand a chance of making a difference, and hope it buys us the time to actually fix something.
No no no you radical centrist everyone has to do it my way or not at all, why do you hate the environment?!?!?!?!?!?!