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There roughly 3 TRILLION excess tons of co2 in the atmosphere, and God knows how much is in the oceans. I have no idea what the funny numbers alleged cost per
by AtlasBarfed 2y ago
There roughly 3 TRILLION excess tons of co2 in the atmosphere, and God knows how much is in the oceans.
I have no idea what the funny numbers alleged cost per ton for carbon removal in this report, but even if it is down to 20$/ton (100$ per ton was more realistic a few years ago) ...
Then do the math. We have a sunk cost of something like 50 trillion dollars using removal using the most optimistic of methods and assuming we stopped carbon emissions today, and it's probably more like 200 trillion in reality.
The petroleum industry would really like us to pay them to clean up their problem to the the of that amount I'm sure.
- baq 2y agoA bit late but pointing out that dollars are fiat money (i.e. numbers on spreadsheets) but CO2 in the atmosphere is very real. Climate crisis will be super-inflationary if we manage to pull through.