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Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is 'rapidly closing'
(www.carbonbrief.org)
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2025
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In the midterms, we need to vote in young people that will dump a shit ton of funding into Direct Air Capture of CO2, we can just take it from ICE and the excessive and exorbitant amounts we waste in the military. Also young people who will imediately reinstate the climate policys the gop got rid of.
To be clear: DAC is at best a small and expensive part of what needs doing right now. Its basically an R&D project at this point, which gets marketed as the One True Solution by the fossil fuels industry because that marketing creates social permission to keep on extracting and burning.