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> If we stop emitting CO2 today, it would still be there in the atmosphere for hundreds of years” he tells me. “If we manage to reduce emissions a little bit, i
by emrah 5y ago
> If we stop emitting CO2 today, it would still be there in the atmosphere for hundreds of years” he tells me. “If we manage to reduce emissions a little bit, it’ll just accumulate at a slower rate but it’ll still go up.” Even that is hard to do at an acceptable economic cost. During last year’s pandemic lockdowns, when much of the economy ground to a halt, our carbon emissions fell to about 21 percent below 2005 levels — which was less than halfway to the Biden’s administration’s 10-year goal.
I think the pandemic has proven definitively that we can't stop producing CO2 unless everyone on the planet changes their way of living significantly and permanently.. which I'm afraid won't happen.
I don't know how successful it will be to suck CO2 out of the air but seems like that's the best bet.
- hackeraccount 5y agoI'm sure you've seen that cartoon with all the things that people want to do and then the punchline "what if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?" That's the rub isn't it? It's why things like "just suck CO2 out of the air" don't fly. The root cause is "make the world better." Stop climate change is a means to that. Personally I think the best way to stop climate change is to get everyone's version of "make the world better" be something that stops climate change. Right now the laundry list is only hitting the buttons for a limited number of people but I don't believe that's inherent to the problem. I think the right solutions - and it's totally possible there aren't universally appealing solutions - could appeal to anyone.