I got some news for you. The “climate” doesn’t care what you think or do - it’s too busy being massive, complex and ungovernable, in addition to undergoing its own changes which humanity affects only at the margins. Pollution, on the other hand, from littering by individuals to discharges from industry to overall waste management impacts our immediate environment and our quality of life and should be our focus.
And if you live on a speck of earth in the middle of a vast ocean, you’re not going to be inundated because Americans like driving F-150s - it’ll be because you live on a speck of earth in the middle of a vast ocean.
Same goes for any coastal habitation (I’m looking at you, Eastern Seaboard and Gulf of America (first time I’ve been able to write that, and it’s glorious) communities, Miami, et al.). The waters come because the ocean. Period.
Climate change is constant, and much like the poor, floods, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes, and the natural calamities we call force majeure (acts of God) will always be with us. They’re a built-in reminder of how small we are.
Now pick up that Macdonalds wrapper you just “accidentally” dropped, quit throwing your cigarette butts goddamn everywhere, and quit rolling coal while you’re out cruising. And you hippies, Gaia is not one big composting pile, your “environmental protests” generate far more garbage and environmental degradation than that pipeline ever will, and if you insist on making fools of yourselves by throwing soup on classic artwork or blocking rush hour traffic, you had better not have one goddamn iota of petroleum-derived material on your person or in your household, or you deserve to be run over by that F150.
You know what, check that. If you’re a climate apocalypse “leave it in the ground” type activist, fuck you. Though I’ll don a grass skirt and coconut bra after several mai-tais at the poolside bar (never goes out in style), I am not going to live in an earthen hut and scratch out a living like a dust bowl chicken
There is no "saving the climate". You liberals and climate crisis cultists are not Gods. Climate is nature. You cannot control nature.
However, what you can do is to advocate for good stewardship of the environment. You can advocate for government support of technological R&D to improve green sustainable energy.
And you can STOP YOUR IRRATIONAL OPPOSITION TO NUCLEAR POWER.
Lastly, you can advocate for adaption measures as climate changes and will always change and adaption measures are supported by both climate crisis believers and those that think it is bunk.
I founded Nori in 2017, one of the first carbon removal marketplaces, and we named it Nori precisely because of this potential for seaweed to help with carbon drawdown.
While I agree ocean iron fertilization will be necessary, implementing it faces more complex challenges than described here. In my recent article https://www.inevitableandobvious.com/p/we-wont-achieve-gigatonne-carbon, I outline how current carbon removal market structures fundamentally prevent scaling to necessary levels - we're orders of magnitude away from needed volumes.
This article provides good context on ocean-based approaches, but solving the broader scaling problems (verification obsession, permanence requirements, and additionality constraints) is essential regardless of which carbon removal pathways we pursue.
Good to see more attention on ocean CDR - the potential scale is precisely what we need!
I got some news for you. The “climate” doesn’t care what you think or do - it’s too busy being massive, complex and ungovernable, in addition to undergoing its own changes which humanity affects only at the margins. Pollution, on the other hand, from littering by individuals to discharges from industry to overall waste management impacts our immediate environment and our quality of life and should be our focus.
And if you live on a speck of earth in the middle of a vast ocean, you’re not going to be inundated because Americans like driving F-150s - it’ll be because you live on a speck of earth in the middle of a vast ocean.
Same goes for any coastal habitation (I’m looking at you, Eastern Seaboard and Gulf of America (first time I’ve been able to write that, and it’s glorious) communities, Miami, et al.). The waters come because the ocean. Period.
Climate change is constant, and much like the poor, floods, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes, and the natural calamities we call force majeure (acts of God) will always be with us. They’re a built-in reminder of how small we are.
Now pick up that Macdonalds wrapper you just “accidentally” dropped, quit throwing your cigarette butts goddamn everywhere, and quit rolling coal while you’re out cruising. And you hippies, Gaia is not one big composting pile, your “environmental protests” generate far more garbage and environmental degradation than that pipeline ever will, and if you insist on making fools of yourselves by throwing soup on classic artwork or blocking rush hour traffic, you had better not have one goddamn iota of petroleum-derived material on your person or in your household, or you deserve to be run over by that F150.
You know what, check that. If you’re a climate apocalypse “leave it in the ground” type activist, fuck you. Though I’ll don a grass skirt and coconut bra after several mai-tais at the poolside bar (never goes out in style), I am not going to live in an earthen hut and scratch out a living like a dust bowl chicken
There is no "saving the climate". You liberals and climate crisis cultists are not Gods. Climate is nature. You cannot control nature.
However, what you can do is to advocate for good stewardship of the environment. You can advocate for government support of technological R&D to improve green sustainable energy.
And you can STOP YOUR IRRATIONAL OPPOSITION TO NUCLEAR POWER.
Lastly, you can advocate for adaption measures as climate changes and will always change and adaption measures are supported by both climate crisis believers and those that think it is bunk.
Oh yes, now we’ve come to the nub of it: my irrational opposition to nuclear power…
https://www.onepercentbrighter.com/p/the-wages-of-germanys-nuclear-vandalism
https://www.persuasion.community/p/germany-is-being-served-up-on-a-platter?trk=feed-detail_main-feed-card_feed-article-content
I founded Nori in 2017, one of the first carbon removal marketplaces, and we named it Nori precisely because of this potential for seaweed to help with carbon drawdown.
While I agree ocean iron fertilization will be necessary, implementing it faces more complex challenges than described here. In my recent article https://www.inevitableandobvious.com/p/we-wont-achieve-gigatonne-carbon, I outline how current carbon removal market structures fundamentally prevent scaling to necessary levels - we're orders of magnitude away from needed volumes.
This article provides good context on ocean-based approaches, but solving the broader scaling problems (verification obsession, permanence requirements, and additionality constraints) is essential regardless of which carbon removal pathways we pursue.
Good to see more attention on ocean CDR - the potential scale is precisely what we need!
Yeah how many noxious gases are released from burning Teslas?