A developer wanted to build a facility to capture carbon. Locals saw an environmental menace.

  • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
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    21 days ago

    Trees only temporarily capture carbon, and they don’t do a super great job at it. In the US, there are more trees now than when the settlers landed on Plymouth rock, so they’re already not mitigating what humans are pumping out.

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      17 days ago

      they’re already not mitigating what humans are pumping out

      They very much are mitigating human-caused damage, just not completely.