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Why would we do that when clean energy + carbon capture is cheaper than fossil fuels were?



Carbon capture largely isn't a thing. Most carbon capture programmes simply buy up temporary guarantees not to chop down trees that weren't at risk in the first place (or at least not in that timeframe).

There is some innovation happening in technologies to extract carbon from air but they're extremely inefficient and mostly exist as greenwashing of plastics while effectively wasting energy that in turn ultimately results in pollution.




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