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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really exciting development for the climate change mitigation toolkit. Let's hope it's not too challenging or costly to scale up and deploy.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still feel that these will be used in place of structural changes and we'll just end up polluting more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does that really matter if there are proper systems to deal with the pollution?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah because it's not fixing the problem, really it's just passing it off to a future generation

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of this a bit recursive trolley problem

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Combatting symptoms is nice and all, but ideally you'd want to remove the reason these symptoms exist in the first place.