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Carbon sequestration for carbon that should never have been pumped out of the ground in the first place? Maybe just don't make plastics from petroleum. Leave it
by krunck 3y ago
Carbon sequestration for carbon that should never have been pumped out of the ground in the first place? Maybe just don't make plastics from petroleum. Leave it in the ground.
Better yet, make plastics from 100% bio-sourced polymers(carbon from CO2 in the atmosphere) and bury those. That would be effective sequestration.
- XorNot 3y agoThere is absolutely no reason we shouldn't use oil to make plastic. The entirety of the problem with CO2 in the atmosphere is from the use of oil as combustible fuel. Like "shouldn't have been pumped from the ground in the first place" -- what? (also ignoring that historically oil was discovered literally just coming up out of the ground on it's own).
- mplewis 3y agoAre you saying that we don't pump oil out of the ground intentionally?