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orthoclad

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15. Carbon capture will be used as
Sun Aug 13, 2023, 08:02 PM
Aug 2023

an excuse to keep polluting. Fossilists don't even have to accomplish anything, all they need to do is say "We're on it!" and their tame governments will shove even more money at them. Subsidized coming and going.

I think all those trillions of wealth they've sequestered over the generations should be used to relieve the misery of the people who made that wealth to begin with. Relocate coastal populations, feed climate refugees, clean up drinking water, pay for clean energy projects.

I suppose we'll dither around until drastic geoengineering and carbon capture become necessary, in a too little, too late manner. If so, the profiteers should indeed pay, since they paid for the campaign to delay action.

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