As commented here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38244827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38244827 I fundamentally reject the notion that we can't

As commented here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38244827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38244827 I fundamentally reject the notion that we can't sustainably pull all this carbon out of the air. Part of why we have problems with forest fires today is vast over planting of forests in the past (as told to me by a firefighter involved in such management). Further, pull up the xkcd on energy densities by type - uranium is off the charts and many orders of magnitude greater than fossil fuels. Much of the perceived lack of solutions stems from a forced ignorance of the past and centuries of success with large scale projects ala the highway system, the Hoover Dam, Social Security, nuclear powered vessels, etc. Further, trying to force people to live with less is a losing proposition. Water is life-societies with less water scarcity tend to have less war/violence. Similar is probably a truism for food and generally personal liberties. Then there's the resources dissolved in the oceans water. Huge amounts of everything we could ever need (lithium, gold, uranium, etc). Pull an amount of carbon out of the ocean and the ocean will pull that amount of carbon out of the atmosphere. Plus, of course, nearly limitless fresh water once desalinated. The Earth is an absolute gem of diverse life sustaining resources. Just don't be self destructive.