Africa’s first carbon-removal plant stokes questions about responsible climate solutions
www.nbcnews.com
A joint venture between Swiss company Climeworks and Kenya-based Great Carbon Valley has been billed as a springboard for creating a new, green economy in Africa.

The article puts it up as a question about whether this practice is worthwhile since the only logical solution to climate change is to de-carbonize. Personally I think that question isn’t very nuanced, certainly de-carbonizing 100’a of tons from the atmosphere from just this one plant is a small net positive. Can’t let it be an excuse to keep rolling coal in your F750’a but I’m still in favor of sucking as much carbon out of the air as we can.

  • @illTempered_Wombat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    -1•1 year ago

    Then why try?

    I hate excuses like this it doesn’t work right now so then why bother. The right brothers bothered to try even though their first plane only could go a short distance and now they can do laps around the world. Look at electric cars just over decade ago they had short range and long charging times. Now you can get 100 miles in 15min or so with rapid chargers. The road to the future is paved with failure we had make terrible cars, awful lightbulbs, shitty refrigerators, crappy computers and endless failed dead end inventions to get where we are now. And we know we have to do some thing about the climate. So we better start throwing all sorts of shit on the wall to see what sticks. Becuse we are gonna find a lot of ways not to do it before we find the right way.

    • @bobman@unilem.orgEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Then why try?

      The problem here is that ‘trying’ means funneling money to for-profit companies that aren’t actually going to solve the issue.

      It’s very important that people like you believe their bullshit without a second thought because it makes them more money with less effort.