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this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
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This is why I think people who try to downplay carbon reuptake are insane. Yes of course we should move as much as we can to decarbonize. But we also have to be honest with ourselves. For the reasons you've listed and more, there's going to be a lot of carbon being released into our atmosphere for a long time. That is in addition to the carbon we've already released and the cascading effects it will have to release more. There's no way out and we have to stop being purists about this and figure out a way to quickly and reliably recapture carbon before it's too late for us.
We don't have to, we can just not.
We're gonna let this happen, you just haven't accepted it yet. Humanity is already extinct, it largely just doesn't realize it.