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The scariest climate plot in the world | do not let small children read this
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It's very easy to release CO2. It's FAR harder to recapture it. Much of our generation is less than 20% efficient. Assuming they get it up to 50% efficiency in recapturing CO2 (which would be impressive, plants are around 4-6%) they would have to expend 10x the energy we have, since the industrial revolution to undo the changes. That's a HUGE burden to put on future generations. If we can't not burn it in the first place, why do we expect them to do so much better than us?