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testeronious@lemmy.world to Climate@slrpnk.net · 2 years ago

Taking CO2 out of the air would be an absurdly expensive way to fight climate change

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Taking CO2 out of the air would be an absurdly expensive way to fight climate change

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testeronious@lemmy.world to Climate@slrpnk.net · 2 years ago
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Taking CO2 out of the air would be an absurdly expensive way to fight climate change
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It could cost the US $100 billion a year.
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    That sounds like a lot of work though

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      That’s the nifty part, members of the Plant Kingdom do all the heavy lifting on this. We just need to assist a bit.

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        that’s the neat part, we don’t even need to assist just get out of the way. and that’s going to happen sooner than later.

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          Oh! I know how to do that!

          *dies*

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          They’re now using these with drones instead of cargo jets. The drones can plant 100k trees a day!

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        The tricky part is keeping the carbon in the plants. My grass clippings will decompose back into CO2 if you just dump it in a pile. A better option would be to dehydrate the clippings and bury it in a cave or something.

        I also understand that there would be better plants than grass as well.

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        Shit, (literally) we can get members of the animal kingdom to do most of the medium lifting too.

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