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The turtle will catch Zeno any day now. Those savings in decades are not in the same order than all the fossil carbon that was extracted each single year on the
by gmuslera 2y ago
The turtle will catch Zeno any day now. Those savings in decades are not in the same order than all the fossil carbon that was extracted each single year on them. In fact, neither is with how much we increased the extraction, for most of the single years of that period.
And I am talking about fossil carbon, something deeply buried for millions of years, and added to the cycle, not circulating differently the carbon that already was in it. Most of that new carbon was extracted in less than a century and burned, staying for a couple of centuries more.
And speaking of recycling carbon, it is not even in the order of carbon emitted by positive feedback loops, what is emitted by permafrost thawing, what was emitted just last year in Canada fires is all orders over the effort of decades.
There is a big elephant in the room. While it is there, all effort will be mostly meaningless.