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It's good to see those arbitrarily bestowed with celebrity articulate big picture pains if they can't articulate specific solutions. Better than vapid statement
by anonsivalley652 7y ago
It's good to see those arbitrarily bestowed with celebrity articulate big picture pains if they can't articulate specific solutions. Better than vapid statements, clichés or ego-stroking.
I can only dream that someone who gets enough multi-platform viewers will mention not just that climate change is real but that global net negative emissions including Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS) are vital to begin now. Two of the most obvious of thousands of possible solutions is to begin kelp farming where it's already growing like crazy, such as in the Atlantic between the Yucatan in Mexico and West Africa, the other is iron seeding when conditions are right to rapidly expand phytoplankton blooms. ~3,200 Gt of CO2 are in the atmosphere right now, and that needs to be ~2,100 Gt to reach 280 ppm.. an excess of 1.1 trillion metric tonnes / 1.1e15 kg / 1.1e18 g. That's about 10x the total current biomass on Earth. It's a lot but it has to be removed, and to do so will require doing big things at scale (i.e., self-replicating floating factories), working with nearly all other countries and getting it done. If people can build the pyramids, go to the Moon and eliminate malaria, certainly people can figure out how to make a lot more oceanic biomass and sequester it.