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SeneInSPAAACE t1_ja4fv1c wrote

No method of carbon capture will do more than mitigate what's coming.

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Fun fact, a while back I calculated how many trees we would require to stop INCREASING CO2 in the atmosphere - not reduce, just get to not increasing - and it was around 3 trillion trees.
This is 3000 billion.

Bu comparison, the pledges to plant trees are like, 3 billion in EU by 2030, or 2 billion trees in Canada.

Let's assume canada-size investment for every country in the world, including Luxembourg and Vatican, and we still only get to 390 billion, which is 2610 billion short. Based on the numbers the year I did that math, which was probably 2021, so 3 trillion probably wouldn't even be enough in the first place.

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Chroderos t1_ja5sbz9 wrote

Probably going to need to supplement with technologies like iron seeding in the ocean, carbon capture plants, and the like.

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