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Dylan16807 on Sept 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: a...

We can just turn off the carbon sinks in that case, there's plenty of carbon around to grab off the ground. And release some methane if needed.

ben_w on Sept 22, 2022 [–]

Eh, if it's economical to have the sinks at that scale, we probably won't turn them off for the same reason we "could" turn the CO2 sources off but don't.

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