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Strong disagreement! Carbon capture is the only way to get back to pre industrial CO2 levels! Even if/when we emit zero CO2, the elevated levels would remain

• lordswork 3y ago
  We need both, but reaching zero emissions is far more urgent and cost effective (by many orders of magnitude) right now.
• adgjlsfhk1 3y ago
  the problem with carbon capture is that carbon capture with a grid that is over 10% fossil fuel is net negative. it's like fixing a broken tap by pointing a firehoze at it.
• darby_eight 3y ago
  What happens if we can't find a carbon capture method that works efficiently and at scale? We need about a million better plans than that to maintain any sense of sanity.
  • constantcrying 3y ago
    We already have carbon capture technology, which is deployed at mass scale and transforms carbon into some of the most useful resources on earth, like food, building materials, raw materials for fuels and plastics and much, much more. Given that this technology already is deployed over enormous stretches of the earth and that it actively benefits in its productivity from elevated levels of CO2 why not further that technology? CO2 isn't some poison in the atmosphere, it needs to be there. The one thing under control of humans is what percentage of Carbon is in the atmosphere or bound in different forms. The problem isn't too much CO2 in the atmosphere, it is that the amount of CO2 there can't be reabsorbed at a self regulating rate.