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Burying carbon is a great idea. Similar to the great idea of preventing cells from reproducing without limit (cancer). The important question is, in both cases:
by javajosh 3y ago
Burying carbon is a great idea. Similar to the great idea of preventing cells from reproducing without limit (cancer). The important question is, in both cases: how do you do it? With carbon there is an additional question: what is the demand? This is the interface with neoliberal capitalism: what is the demand? For cancer drugs, it's obvious. For carbon sequestration, it's less obvious. Currently we require individual consumers to prefer carboon negative products. But that's clearly not sustainable. Assuming we have a technical solution, what then is the political solution?
- esarbe 3y agoInstead of burying carbon, why not just not dig it up in the first place? Prohibiting fossil fuels seems like a much simper way than trying to somehow let the market regulate that.
- concordDance 3y agoYou need to prohibit them worldwide, which requires plenty of coercion of other countries. While carbon capture can be unilateral.
- esarbe 3y ago> You need to prohibit them worldwide, which requires plenty of coercion of other countries. That's easy for economic blocks like the US and the EU. There's plenty of other regulations they have coerced other nations to follow.