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Beyond carbon capture, trees cool an area, which is good in its own right.

by prox 5y ago

jazzyjackson 5y ago
Yes, everyone here seems to think CO2 is the most important thing to reduce, but we're not suffering from CO2 (2*C never hurt anybody), we're suffering from increased weather volatility as the homeostatic influence of the biosphere has been destroyed, slash and burned for cow pasture, drained for corn and soy farms, overfished and trawled until nothing is left. But since CO2 is easier to measure than biomass and ecosystem complexity, everyone is focused on sucking carbon out of the air when we need to be restoring grasslands, forests, and coral reefs. Source: Charles Eisenstein's "Climate: A New Story"
- blamestross 5y ago
  I'm scared of "climate change" not because of temperature rise, not because of dangerous weather, not even because of ocean acidification. We have practice in handling all those things. I'm scared of C02 directly. It sure as hell does hurt people, we are looking a 685 ppm in 2050[1], over 1000 ppm in 2100[2], spiraling worse than that for the next 5000 years. The problem is that c02 makes us dumber, even small amounts.[3] Carbon Sequestration technology, on a globally ubiquitous and household scale is an overriding priority simply because we might be too dumb to fix it later. If we don't head off this escalation of c02, we are looking at a 5000 year dark age from the cognitive results alone. [1]https://www.oecd.org/env/cc/Outlook%20to%202050_Climate%20Change%20Chapter_HIGLIGHTS-FINA-8pager-UPDATED%20NOV2012.pdf https://www.oecd.org/env/cc/Outlook%20to%202050_Climate%20Ch... [2]https://www.acer-acre.ca/resources/climate-change-in-context/introduction-2/global/scientific-projections/projections-for-carbon-dioxide https://www.acer-acre.ca/resources/climate-change-in-context... [3]https://www.businessinsider.com/carbon-dioxide-indoors-could-reduce-cognitive-abilities-2019-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/carbon-dioxide-indoors-could...
  - prox 5y ago
    What if we build co2 scrubbers in every home?
    - blamestross 5y ago
      13% of the population doesn't even have electricity, that would take more work than mitigating climate change.
      - prox 5y ago
        I really hope we can curb the damage. We already had four years of political climate denial, lost and gone forever. We need to step up, but I recently read heavy industry is really dragging their feet into the sand.

Beyond carbon capture, trees cool an area, which is good in its own right.

by prox 5y ago

Beyond carbon capture, trees cool an area, which is good in its own right.

Yes, everyone here seems to think CO2 is the most important thing to reduce, but we're not suffering from CO2 (2*C never hurt anybody), we're suffering from increased weather volatility as the homeostatic influence of the biosphere has been destroyed, slash and burned for cow pasture, drained for corn and soy farms, overfished and trawled until nothing is left. But since CO2 is easier to measure than biomass and ecosystem complexity, everyone is focused on sucking carbon out of the air when we need to be restoring grasslands, forests, and coral reefs. Source: Charles Eisenstein's "Climate: A New Story"

blamestross 5y ago
I'm scared of "climate change" not because of temperature rise, not because of dangerous weather, not even because of ocean acidification. We have practice in handling all those things. I'm scared of C02 directly. It sure as hell does hurt people, we are looking a 685 ppm in 2050[1], over 1000 ppm in 2100[2], spiraling worse than that for the next 5000 years. The problem is that c02 makes us dumber, even small amounts.[3] Carbon Sequestration technology, on a globally ubiquitous and household scale is an overriding priority simply because we might be too dumb to fix it later. If we don't head off this escalation of c02, we are looking at a 5000 year dark age from the cognitive results alone. [1]https://www.oecd.org/env/cc/Outlook%20to%202050_Climate%20Change%20Chapter_HIGLIGHTS-FINA-8pager-UPDATED%20NOV2012.pdf https://www.oecd.org/env/cc/Outlook%20to%202050_Climate%20Ch... [2]https://www.acer-acre.ca/resources/climate-change-in-context/introduction-2/global/scientific-projections/projections-for-carbon-dioxide https://www.acer-acre.ca/resources/climate-change-in-context... [3]https://www.businessinsider.com/carbon-dioxide-indoors-could-reduce-cognitive-abilities-2019-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/carbon-dioxide-indoors-could...
- prox 5y ago
  What if we build co2 scrubbers in every home?
  - blamestross 5y ago
    13% of the population doesn't even have electricity, that would take more work than mitigating climate change.
    - prox 5y ago
      I really hope we can curb the damage. We already had four years of political climate denial, lost and gone forever. We need to step up, but I recently read heavy industry is really dragging their feet into the sand.