kind of funny given what a stink everyone made about forgiving student loans being an upper middle class subsidy that the climate provisions are very explicitly a subsidy on upper middle class homeowners.
kind of funny given what a stink everyone made about forgiving student loans being an upper middle class subsidy that the climate provisions are very explicitly a subsidy on upper middle class homeowners.
either get rid of capitalism or we all live in an endless mega forest, i like this plan.
look i get theres limitations to planting trees its just the cheapest most immediately impactful thing to be done and its gobsmacking the west cant even organise a big campaign for it. capitalists really do be accelerationists
I'm saying that any plan that doesn't involve getting rid of capitalism still kills us. it's not enough to replant the trees, we need to restore the forests, with all their biodiversity. otherwise, these artificial carbon stores only work until they die and release the carbon back into the atmosphere. in order to be true carbon sinks -- the kind that created the coal we're burning in the first place -- the forest was well and truly trap the carbon that's emitted by the decomposition process. we know this happens in real forests and does not happen in artificial ones, because we only plant the trees.
Coal comes from trees that didn't decompose because the micro-organisms that decompose them now didn't exist. There's no going back.