• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I wonder how expensive the damages from climate change will be.

    across the US. Big companies including Microsoft and Amazon are also paying startups to capture some of their pollution. And the fossil fuel industry has embraced the technology, even using it to market supposedly more sustainable oil. Apparently, that still isn’t enough.

    “More sustainable oil”. Sure dude. Just keep doing the same thing you’ve always done that cause this problem in the first place. But wait…

    There are so many limitations to the most studied CDR techniques — including tree plantingand** machines that capture CO2 **— that Romm says the money would be better spent researching other ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

    Oh, so do nothing while things keep getting worse? We need to hemm and haw over the things we haven’t thought of that will also be too expensive?

    But why put a Band-Aid on the problem if we aren’t stopping the bleeding?

    Well, because it’s not a perfect solution we should do nothing is the gist I’m getting from this whole thing. Other than what we’re already doing - attempting to lower emissions.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      Lowering emissions doesn’t increase shareholder value. Try again, and this time think of the shareholders.

      /s (obviously)