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Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)

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[–] solo@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago

I find the following part to be very illuminating

Yet a million tonnes – or even the full 28 million tonnes that have been purchased to date – is negligible in terms of impact on the climate. At current emissions levels, removing a million tonnes is like undoing 13 minutes out of a full year of emissions,