• neanderthal@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Stop buying shit. Consumption = Emissions. Drive as little as possible. Cars = Emissions. Adjust your thermostat. HVAC = emissions. Eat less beef. Corn fed moo=methane. Buy shit with a buy it for life mentality. Get involved with your local urban planning and zoning. Everyone can do all of that right now.

    Down the road, vote for the most climate friendly candidates. Run for office if you can.

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      8 months ago

      Planting trees is likely not going to be enough. There’s so much carbon in the air right now that the symbiotic fungi that typically feed plants nitrogen in exchange for carbon, are doing so at a lesser rate. Essentially the exchange is experiencing inflation

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          8 months ago

          Short of mining the moon to make orbital mirrors out of lunar tin foil, foucus on rapid and complete decarbonisation while accepting that there were consequences to largely ignoreing the problem for the last sixty years.

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            8 months ago

            This isrl relatable to so many people wait until the absolute last second before starting to do anything. Procrastination ftw.

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          8 months ago

          Solution is a maybe an overstatement, but

          • destroy the methane. That’s energetically favorable, so it can be done more easily. Makes some CO2 but it’s 50x less bad that way.
          • get the carbon back out and stick it into the ground. We’ll be on our way when the Mauna Loa CO2 curve bends and goes down for a year or two. That’s energetically expensive, but we’ll figure out a way (hopefully) to do it wherever we have solar overproduction.

          Trees are nice, but it’s nowhere near enough to do that.