Even if global greenhouse gas emissions immediately and permanently stop, climate change won’t. We have many years of further warming ahead of us due to the greenhouse gases already dumped into the atmosphere.

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triceratops 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Then we move on to carbon capture at scale.

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iSnow 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

And who is going to pay for that? Pretty sure it's going to be neither Russia, China, Saudi Arabia nor the USA.

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thfuran 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And have Dubai make a few new islands out of diamonds?

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lovich 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Not diamonds, but olivine. And Dubai isn’t the only one who’d have an interest, anywhere with coastal property that likes to maintain it against erosion is a target for this, admittedly experimental, technique.

https://www.vesta.earth/

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triceratops 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

With enough energy you can do literally anything.

	▲	lovich 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		And to that point as well we have tech working on using more energy but less carbon like Boston Metal is doing with carbon less steel. The current political landscape has me black pilled but on the technology side we have a lot to look forward to. https://www.bostonmetal.com/