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orthoclad

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11. Like so-called carbon capture,
Tue Aug 6, 2024, 07:08 AM
Aug 2024

Last edited Tue Aug 6, 2024, 10:00 AM - Edit history (1)

which is actually being used to force oil out of rock, large-scale geoengineering projects like this will be used to facilitate fossil burning if conducted by First World capitalism.
"Hey, there's a reprieve, go fill up your bloatmobiles".

It's an old idea. There's a good treatment of this strategy in Robinson's The Ministry For The Future.

We may well need to use large-scale geoengineering, but the better solution is "leave it in the ground".

edit: damn, this old fool can't type

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