The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal / The move represents a big step in the effort to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere—and slow down climate change.::undefined

  • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
    216·
    2 years ago

    Carbon capture is a fucking scam, always has been.

    This just funnels more money into big oil.

    • dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago
      1. Let big oil pollute the everloving fuck of the planet.
      2. Tax the peasants to fund carbon capture theatre.
      3. Tear gas the protestors so they die quietly in their own homes.
      4. Profit???
    • htrayl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Direct carbon capture is a scam. Alternatives like biochar, enhanced basalt weathering, and reforesting are definitely not.

      • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
        82·
        2 years ago

        The article says it’s direct air capture. So everything I said about this being a scam is true.

        • htrayl@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          You made a generalized statement about carbon capture, which is unfortunately absolutely a necessary step we need to take.

    • astral_avocado@programming.devEnglish
      61·
      2 years ago

      I recall the biggest direct air capture facility ever made in like, Norway?, only being able to capture about a few seconds worth of our yearly carbon output lol

  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    142·
    2 years ago

    People should keep in mind that even if we stop adding more carbon into the atmosphere today it still wouldn’t stop climate change because all the carbon we’ve put there already isn’t going anywhere. To truly stop and reverse climate change requires carbon capture in one way or another. It’s something we have to do.

    • kicksystem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      124·
      2 years ago

      We’re sooooo far from even thinking about reversing climate change that this argument, though valid, sounds very misplaced. If can’t even get my friends, who are otherwise smart and decent people, to consider not eating meat.

      • Kage520@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Try slow changes for them first. Impossible burgers are actually very tasty! And if seasoned well, taste pretty close to the real thing. Maybe convince them to do a day off meat per month at first, with these burgers to replace it.

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Meat in vats has also made some real strides recently, not quite a polished product yet, but once it is I suspect that agriculture will rapidly switch, because it’s so much cheaper to make than growing and slaughtering animals. I expect the cow/chicken/pig/goat population to plummet in the next couple decades, much the same way that the horse population did in the early 20th century. We’ll stop eating them directly. We’ll keep them as pets. Some people already do keep them as pets.

          Spay and neuter your cats and dogs people!

            • kicksystem@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              2 years ago

              Believe me, I am not trying to point out that I am vegan. It’s not like I am building a name for myself. I only use this handle on the fediverse.

              However, I do like to point out that we’re screwing the planet and the animals with our behavior. Sometimes people listen, instead of trying to put me in a box or becoming defensive. That has a small chance of making the world just a tiny bit better.

              And if you really must put me in a box, then you can put me in a box with other well educated people who also happen to have some basic understanding of grammar. I don’t love grammar at all by the way. It’s not my field.

    • Urga@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      71·
      2 years ago

      If only there was some kind of creature doing it that also provides oxigen in some way…

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
    111·
    2 years ago

    Why don’t we just simply throw every big oil exec into life in prison. That’d solve so many issues. Fuck em, they’re straight evil.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      2 years ago

      I prefer we send the corporations to Texas, and execute them. Not the CEOs and boards, throw them in jail. Execute the corporation by seizing all assets in the US, freezing all corporate accounts, and turning them into public utilities that are government owned, and operated either as a nonprofit, or all profits go to The sovereign fund of Humanity, which will be devoted to the establishment of global UBI.

      Start with the oil companies, and see how many other corporations fall in line.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I can’t get the article to open. Is this going to worthwhile carbon capturing or is it going to be like that South American sequestration plant which just opened that will take 168,000 years to remove just the carbon we generated in 2022?

    • Yondoza@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I agree that planting trees is generally good, but doing so can’t sequester the amount of carbon released by humans since the start of the industrial revolution. We need other avenues to do that. If we returned forests back to how they were 100,000 years ago (untouched by modern humans) the new trees that would grow wouldn’t be able to soak up the CO2 released. Returning the forests to that state with the current world population isn’t feasible either as we need some of that land for agriculture.

      I get your sentiment, but we’re beyond a ‘plant trees’ solution.