• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Oh I get what you’re getting at now. Yeah if sequestering is limited, you should be using as little as you can. But for applications like rockets, it’s much more effective to sequestere CO2 than to try to make something like an electric water rocket.

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      2 months ago

      Totally. But it can and probably will be used as an excuse for why it’s ok to pollute land an air with open goldmines so some company can make gold turd sculptures for rich people to place in their homes as a “conversation piece”.

      When in reality we should be discussing whether some non-essential industries should get to emit anything at all.

      That’s what the greenwashing mentioned by the person you replied to means. It’s the practice of marketing away the downsides of a product that really shouldn’t be possible to rub off. Some things are just inherently wasteful and “offsetting” the waste just means something unavoidable is offset a little less.