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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 124 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Pretty sure they will find a way to look good on paper while still doing more harm than good

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 3 months ago

"In order to adequately test our new carbon capture system, obviously, we had to dump a couple trillion more tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Which, yeah, granted, does make it all that much more upsetting that the system didn't actually work."

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They'll all buy credits, problem solved!

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can we rebrand normal taxation as Non Fungible Energy Credits??

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Considering that the USD is sometimes called the "petrodollar", we're just a name-change away.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 8 points 3 months ago

"We changed the legal definition of carbon and have saved the planet"

[–] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 3 months ago

They already do! It's called carbon credits

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They will probably overdo it, probably with iron fertilisation of the ocean, and start a fucking ice age.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 55 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I bet they're too dumb and poor to even know how to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Only people with really big penises and lots of money know how to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Oh, well...

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

They can't even remove micro plastics from the environment and even my peasant testicles can do that

[–] Daze@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (13 children)

Step 1 - Take carbon from atmosphere

Step 2 - Compress carbon into diamonds

Step 3 - ???

Step 4 - Profit!

[–] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

Swap steps 1 and 3.

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[–] redditor_chatter44@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 months ago

They'd still do more harm

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They still haven't decided the pissing match over who can profit the most off pumping the atmosphere full of CO2.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

They will urinate us to the stone age.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Reading the word 'billionaires' and then 'removing ... from our atmosphere', my brain wasn't computing.

'Billionaires removing oxygen to sell back to us' would make sense.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Removing oxygen from billionaires isn't the worst idea either. Maybe by sending them down to the Titanic or off to Mars.

[–] DevCuber@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

That's a doctor who episode

[–] xenspidey@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, because someone would remove all the carbon and all the plants world die.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

imagine atmospheric carbon becoming a delicacy. fuck....

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Gotta sneak it in the side... let's try "who can build the largest/most diamonds from atmospheric carbon".

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Oh. It's a thing. I thought it was an onion type site for a few moments.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a start. Honestly, industrial grade diamonds - the small ones with poor optical quality that go into abrasives, saws - would be even better. And that would side-step the elephant in the room: upsetting the DeBeers diamond cartel.

That said, we need a staggering amount of renewable energy to pull this off, but it's doable. And as far as sequestration goes, the only tech we have that's anywhere near as good is turning CO2 into plastic and permanently burying it in landfills. That's how important this is.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I think biochar production is pretty effective and scalable. Check this company out: https://bioforcetech.com/

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But then the line might go up more slowly for a while! Everything must be sacrificed to the line!

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

Maybe it’ll be a new “line go up” metric and replace the existing line with a better one..?

Wishful thinking, I know.

[–] Kekzkrieger 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There is only one chance to end world hunger, as soon as its solved nobody else can do it! Imagine the prestige!

[–] hswolf@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Sadly, even that wouldn't work, they would just start sabotaging each other and no one would accomplish it, and once again the suffering would fall on the impoverished

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No, it wouldn't.

They'd come up with dodgy and dangerous schemes that would probably just cause more damage. And that would just be before they found a way to monetize it all...

Does the liberals on here not have the foggiest clue how capitalism works?

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Absolutely! Look at what happened to Mr I Want To Go See The Titanic Personally. That was with his own life on the line! Not to mention his teenage son! Please god don't trust the rest of our fucking lives to these maniacs.

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They'd do what they do with green washing currently; measure what they took out, but not how much the put in doing it!

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[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Neal Stephenson wrote a great novel about this. Check out Termination Shock.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Elon, probably: "You're all trying to undo your carbon emissions while I'm making electric cars to lower my carbon footprint. If it's not clear who’s the winner, it's because you're too focused on being a pedo."

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

I'd rather see a posting match over who can pay the most taxes.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 3 months ago

They'd find a way to fuck it up

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Depending on where you live, that may be the best option.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

No help. Only hurt.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago

That's just going to take resources away from other things. Such as keeping fossil fuel plants open as clean power gets diverted to carbon removal.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago
[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago

They are now confused. How will that increase their meaningless high score number?

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

New contest! See which billionair can remove the most billionaires from the earth. Last one standing gets to live. Ok, well maybe at least a movie.

[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago

Make it the new currency.

[–] Reverendender@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They came up with a device to do this at scale, however it IS powered by orphan blood.

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