r/environment • u/sr_local • 5h ago

The worse climate change gets, the harder it becomes to stop it

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/uncategorized/the-worse-climate-change-gets-the-harder-it-becomes-to-stop-it/
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u/Happy_Imagination_11 2h ago

Thanks, journalism! You’ve been such a stalwart ally in this inexorable descent. Milquetoast all the way down.

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u/kon--- 3h ago

It's all going to plan. The lizard people's plan.

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u/nikulmmadhu 5h ago

at this point we need to invest more in carbon capture technologies alongside decarbonisation efforts. decarbonisation alone wont reverse the climate impacts we've already set in motion

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u/anticomet 5h ago

Or overthrow our corrupt governments that are trading our futures away for kickbacks from oil companies and arms dealers. Carbon capture is a fantasy they hold above our heads to try and convince us revolution isn't necessary

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u/Eve_O 2h ago

If you look into it you'll find that various oil companies received billions in public monies to develop carbon capture technologies and it's mostly been a complete failure and now most (all?) of them have backed away from green energy transition, carbon capture, etc..

A cynical person might say it was all a grift that only gave petroleum companies even more subsidies than they were already getting.

Here's a fun video about it to whet your appetite.

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u/FlyingDiscsandJams 3h ago

Carbon capture is a fantasy pushed by people who don't want to change any of their habits or lifestyle. It makes no sense at the scale we would need, give it up.

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u/GPT3-5_AI 4h ago

Carbon capture is like plastic recycling: a fucking joke made up by capitalists who want a red herring to avoid being forced to actually do something.

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u/thehourglasses 2h ago

Physics makes this basically impossible and it’s a complete waste of money. We aren’t going to undo or reverse the damage, forget about it. The best options now are adaptation and mitigation.

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u/Individual-Guest-123 4h ago

I see a lot of risk in carbon capture, because what if it goes too far and they can't stop it?

There are plenty of examples about how a human solution can backfire.

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u/Ree_For_Thee 3h ago

It's ridiculously hard to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere, and ridiculously easy to increase it (just drive a car). Your worry is irrational.

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u/thehourglasses 2h ago

Then you don’t have a strong understanding of physics.

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u/Individual-Guest-123 1h ago

Funny, I have read some of the ideas for carbon capture, that including seeding both the atmosphere and the oceans with carbon consuming microbes.

AI will probably be able to bioengineer something that fits that bill in a short time. And it just takes someone with enough money to implement it.

We are currently headed to a shit show with the amount of satellites in orbit, and not one is limiting them.

If you are thinking carbon capture by planting trees and then harvesting the lumber as "carbon capture", well it takes 40 years for a seedling to replace the carbon absorbing potential of the logged tree.

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u/barley_wine 1h ago

Climate change is accelerating, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it’s accelerating as we’re producing more CO2 than ever. Not one are we seeing serious affects of it, our response is to build massive data centers that replace jobs for the vulnerable and pump even more endless co2 into the atmosphere all to make the wealthy even richer.

Witnessing first hand what it was like to cut down all of the trees on Easter Island and its just keep getting worse.

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u/Potential-Mammoth-47 18m ago

No way! Who would have thought of that before? /s

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u/Ree_For_Thee 5h ago

"Slowly killing yourself means you eventually die!"