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Remember How Sucking Carbon Out of the Air Was Going to Save the Planet? We Have Terrible News

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Remember How Sucking Carbon Out of the Air Was Going to Save the Planet? We Have Terrible News
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The idea of sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere to combat climate change might be a necessary intervention, but it always sounded like a longshot.



Unfortunately, it seems like the strategy is already hitting a wall. A new report published this week found that ongoing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) efforts are barely putting a dent in the fight against global warming — and that for them to start making an impact, they would need to be scaled up at a rate that rivals the adoption of solar panels.

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