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Someone explain why we can't capture CO2 into wood and cardboard and paper products.
by wilg 4y ago
Someone explain why we can't capture CO2 into wood and cardboard and paper products.
- Gigachad 4y agoYou can, until they break down or burn. So you’d have to bury them deep underground to keep the carbon trapped. But it would make way more sense to stop digging up the carbon already trapped underground than to be digging it up and burying it at the same time
- wilg 4y agoSeems like building buildings out of the wood would work right? Most of those aren’t going to be burned down. Also, if we want to reverse global warming carbon sequestration is non-negotiable. We can’t just stop digging up coal and oil cold turkey, and the earth has already warmed enough (and will continue to warm to about 2C) that we will need to go carbon negative, not just neutral.