Climeworks has just opened the world’s largest direct carbon capture plant. It can suck around 36,000 tons of CO2 from the air each year, burying it underground.
  • solo@kbin.earth
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    8 months ago

    So according to statista in 2023 global emissions were 37.5 billions of tons, and exponentially growing since 1944.

    In the article they say they can remove 36,000 tons of CO2 and the goal is

    For the world to achieve “carbon neutrality” by 2050, “we should be removing something like six to 16 billion tons of CO2 per year from the air,”

    That’s a drop in the bucket alright. Sustainability and capitalism (with its embedded exponential growth) cannot coexist.