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No, we saw that non sequitur.
by avgcorrection 4y ago
No, we saw that non sequitur.
- sokoloff 4y agoHow is it a non-sequitur? Take summer 2022 CO2 into plants and bury them in an anaerobic environment. Burn Jet-A in carbon-equal amounts. I don’t see an obvious way that that’s not carbon-neutral.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoIronically, I'm a big fan of this concept of "offsetting" carbon emissions. It's a really useful, market based mechanism for tackling climate change, like carbon taxes. Like every other thing that would make it easy to phase out fossil fuels, it's been relentlessly attacked though, and so people generally have been trained to hate it. Of course, burying plants isn't the cheapest or best way to offset carbon emissions. And if airlines used cheaper, more effective offsets, they'd be attacked as "not really helping". And they do, and they have been. So basically, you can't win, fossil fuel propaganda just has too much money behind it for us to do the obvious and easy stuff, and instead we'll have to slowly crawl towards a solution, pointlessly wasting money and killing people all along the way.