testeronious@lemmy.world to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 7 months agoTaking CO2 out of the air would be an absurdly expensive way to fight climate changewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1303arrow-down16
arrow-up1297arrow-down1external-linkTaking CO2 out of the air would be an absurdly expensive way to fight climate changewww.theverge.comtesteronious@lemmy.world to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 7 months agomessage-square86fedilink
minus-squareILikeBoobieslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-27 months agoDoesn’t help through forest fires But the tree angle is mostly used by polluters to say they are carbon neutral because they planted some trees somewhere so they can continue polluting Not saying you are one of them, just to not put so much stock in it when we should be aiming for elimination
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoI mean I’ll agree 100% that carbon credits or whatever they’re called now is bollocks. But more trees can’t hurt. And they’re nicer than endless fields of corn.
Doesn’t help through forest fires
But the tree angle is mostly used by polluters to say they are carbon neutral because they planted some trees somewhere so they can continue polluting
Not saying you are one of them, just to not put so much stock in it when we should be aiming for elimination
I mean I’ll agree 100% that carbon credits or whatever they’re called now is bollocks.
But more trees can’t hurt. And they’re nicer than endless fields of corn.