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Is Carbon Capture Cause for Hope? a new facility to suck carbon out of the air shows why it's more complicated than that. (newrepublic.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Even if it was straightforward and easy, the eventual outcome will be people assuming it is enough to offset the pollution that it will never keep up with and make people even less interested in getting companies to stop putting carbon into the atmosphere in the first place. Just like the whole 'carbon neutral' and 'recycle plastic' have been blatant lies that make people fine with more pollution and trash.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Agreed. Carbon capture is absolutely an important tech that we should deploy after the cheaper, better solutions of removing carbon from our economies. Carbon capture should be the final phase where we help the Earth heal the damage we've done after we stop doing the damage. We need to first implement those stop-doing-the-damage phases.