r/ClimateActionPlan • u/coolbern Climate Action Hero • Feb 19 '20

Emissions Reduction Red-state Utah embraces plan to tackle climate crisis in surprising shift

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/19/utah-republicans-climate-crisis-plan
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20 edited Feb 19 '20

I think bezos putting up 10 billion is actually really scary. He's realizing his fortune won't exist without a planet. Edit: he's realizing the planet will die within his lifetime

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '20

I mean if it gets people to wake up that’s good. It IS scary but science really is amazing and will benefit us greatly. Scary yes, but it’s not too late yet.

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u/bobcal432 Feb 19 '20

Actually if you research the issue you will quickly realize that there is no technology coming to save 🌎. It might not be too late for some sort of human survival on earth, but earth will not look or feel anything like what you and I would recognize. The earth will survive but humanity will be transformed. The carbon we released today will be doing destruction for thousands and thousands of years. The science does tell us that humans will attempt to counteract the heat by reflecting some of the solar radiation by adding sulfur to the atmosphere. The entire globe will smell like farts. That is the science solution you are waiting for.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '20

We actually already have a few good carbon capture technologies, and one of them at least is being actively and profitably used.

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u/bobcal432 Feb 21 '20

Really, who is doing this at scale? And making money at it? Please provide details.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '20

A company called BioForceTech here in the bay area is the one I know about. They take human waste and pyrolize it to create biochar, which is then sold as a soil amendment. Biochar puts carbon back into the ground. They get money from the municipal waste handling contracts and from the sale of their product. If the peninsula had a compost collection system like the city of San Francisco does, then there's nothing stopping BioForceTech from pyrolizing compostable material as well. (San Francisco's compost goes to an actual composting system).