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You Can Easily Delay Climate Change Today: SO2 Injection
- ZeroGravitas 2y ago> For decades, environmentalists said “We shouldn’t talk about sequestering carbon! This will be an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels!” And they succeeded. For decades, it was a taboo I'm fairly certain this never happened, which casts doubt on the rest of his argument.
- dave4420 2y agoI’m fairly sure there are people still saying this today.
- wmf 2y agoI've seen such comments on HN.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoThe distance between "I've seen such comments on HN" and "environmentalists successfully prevented even the discussion of a technology for decades" is rather vast. And that's giving you the benefit of the doubt, that you're not talking about comments that are actively discussing carbon capture, but just saying it's a bad idea.
- wmf 2y agoAh, I misunderstood your comment. I don't think environmentalists have slowed carbon capture much if at all. Many of them are opposed to it but they're pretty ineffective.