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If the world did this, I believe the fossil fuel companies would compensate by increasing their pollution in a deliberate show of status and power.
by hyperhello 4y ago
If the world did this, I believe the fossil fuel companies would compensate by increasing their pollution in a deliberate show of status and power.
- paulkrush 4y agoI argee, in the Termination Shock book the oil companies flipped to die hard believers in climate change, and became supporters in high atmosphere SO2 injection.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoOk maybe it wouldn't be quite so ridiculous of a cackling smoky room headed by the Rothschild conspiracy, but to the comment's point, why do this if it simply provides an excuse to hold off policy and behavioral changes that actually control emissions? Carbon sequestration/extraction needs to be tied to heavy taxes on carbon emissions. What really annoys me about carbon taxes is that people want to do the offsets of the gas that burns now. Um, what about the untaxed previous century of emissions, which got us to that point? A true carbon tax addresses offset for the emission AND eats into the existing backlog. Which is .... huge .... amounts of carbon. If the US is spending more money on the military than addressing global climate change, you know that the power elite simply don't get it. I won't hold my breath on that.
- lapinot 4y agoYes! All these co2 extraction, sunlight reflection and other surrealistic terraforming methods are mainly a way to continue doing what we know is the actual source of this whole shit: running factories.