• Rom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    The Energy Department projects that together the two plants will create 4,800 jobs and remove more than two million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year, the equivalent of taking half a million gasoline-powered cars off the road.

    I looked it up and about 50 billion tons of CO2 are released each year. They’re patting themselves on their backs for their plan to reduce CO2 emissions by a whole 0.04%. Climate change has been solved, everyone!

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      Ha that’s actually a lot higher than I’d have guessed. The Times’s centering of personal vehicles in their explanation both exaggerates the direct impact of this project, and perpetuates the narrative of climate change being a crisis of people’s personal habits.

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        And they’re 100% going to use this as an excuse to not scale back the burning of fossil fuels in the slightest. Because they’ll try literally anything else before going after capital.

        Edit: wait nvm, they already directly said that lmao

        Oil and gas companies lobbied for the direct air capture money to be included in the law, arguing that the world could continue to burn fossil fuels if it had a way to clean up their planet-warming pollution.

        dammit where’s our guillotine emojis when you need them