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Botany

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1. How about not putting the CO2 up into the air to begin with?

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 08:54 AM

Dec 2024

“We think [DAC] is a massive distraction from the urgent task of phasing out fossil fuels and it serves as a cover up for industry expansion,” says Lili Fuhr, deputy director of the climate and energy program at the Center for International Environmental Law. “Phasing out fossil fuels as rapidly and completely as possible is our only hope for actually limiting global warming.”

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Abundant Hype For Direct Air Capture w/o Evidence Of Scalability; Technology Deeply Embedded Within Oil & Gas Sector [View all] hatrack Dec 2024 OP

How about not putting the CO2 up into the air to begin with? Botany Dec 2024 #1

Yeah, that's come up a time or two in discussions of "carbon capture" . . . hatrack Dec 2024 #2

It is about money and killing the supportive capacity of the planet* and keep burning fossil fuels Botany Dec 2024 #3

I am very interested direct air capture (or direct seawater capture) and support research into it not because... NNadir Dec 2024 #4