Sucking carbon out of the air is no magic fix for the climate emergency

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17 points·lordnacho··4 comments

This strikes me as a strawman: no one serious is seriously arguing, so far as I know, that it is a magic fix. At this point, though, the U.S. government (an extension of voters) is not remotely serious about the climate emergency. Neither, it seems, is China or India. Negative emissions is something that can be done by companies and that needs to be part of the solution, even though it's obviously not a total solution.

Also in The Guardian, "UK hemp farmers 'devastated' after being forced to destroy crop". It seems there was confusion over the licensing, so the farmers had to destroy their huge crop.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/30/oxfordshire-...

The only solution is socialism. I know this because watch the socialists rail at, and even actively attempt to sabotage, any solution that doesn't include a heaping spoonful of state control over the economy.

When you have a government, you have a control over everything, the only question is of quantity. Capitalism used to live with state - indeed, state is (also) a pretty old invention - so here is the proposal: let's have both capitalism - and a spoonful of state control over economy. This way we can have both goods, and the only question is to maintain a careful balance while still having it working.

Problem solved?

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