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by bevr1337 313 days ago
> There is existing technology to extract co2

Source? As I understand it, co2 sequestration is still in R&D and not viable at scale. We can hit neutral, like a tree does, but that doesn't improve the situation. Like desalination, it sure seems like an easy problem but is not.

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> As I understand it, co2 sequestration is still in R&D and not viable at scale.

I'm sure he knows. He's just tacitly saying cars should be defacto banned for anybody who's not a multimillionaire.

The reason this isn't done is because trying something like that is how you lose elections. So really it's a fantasy about having authoritarian control over everybody else.