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Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn
“Climate change comes with irreversible consequences.”
That makes it all the more urgent for governments and companies with climate goals to slash pollution from fossil fuels now, rather than offsetting or capturing their greenhouse gas emissions after the fact. Startups are developing a whole suite of technologies to try to help big polluters capture their carbon dioxide emissions — from filtering CO2 out of the air or ocean to trapping CO2 in rocks or concrete. “We cannot squander carbon dioxide removal on offsetting emissions we have the ability to avoid,” study coauthor Gaurav Ganti, a research analyst at Climate Analytics, said in a press release.
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