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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes, the most that carbon capture can do is temporarily slow down climate change. It turns out the only way you can stop getting carbon from outside the carbon cycle into the carbon cycle is to stop taking carbon from outside the carbon cycle and putting it into the carbon cycle.

But the problem with oil is that it's really good, and it does a lot of stuff really well

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

But the problem with oil is that it’s really good

Oil is good because it's cheap and it's only cheap because we don't pay the full bill. If we'd bill polluters for the full cost it would take to offset the emissions, it would quickly stop being economically viable to use oil in many sectors.