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Too bad the steps where you extract oil and turn it into goods produce and emit a whole bunch of co2 into the atmosphere, otherwise this might make a believably
by dahart 5y ago
Too bad the steps where you extract oil and turn it into goods produce and emit a whole bunch of co2 into the atmosphere, otherwise this might make a believably simplistic solution. Oh, and the pesky problem with needing to burn a bunch of oil just to produce plastic and get it delivered.
BTW the term carbon sequestration is talking about extracting co2 from the atmosphere today to slow co2 pollution. It is not referring to using fossil fuel carbons from the ground or carbon that was in the atmosphere millions of years ago. It doesn’t even make sense to suggest you’re ‘sequestering’ carbon by pulling it out the ground and then putting it back.
Curious, what parts of the argument against plastic aren’t making sense? The main problems with plastic is it’s non-renewable and doesn’t decompose, so we’re going to run out and we can’t get it back. If you’re a proponent of plastic, these facts should worry you, no?