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.

  • silent_water [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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      2 years ago

      Coal comes from trees that didn't decompose because the micro-organisms that decompose them now didn't exist. There's no going back.