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Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap (theconversation.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I really don't think that's what the article is saying at all. For the most part this is not even a forward looking article. Most of it is how carbon neutral schemes were used to avoid significant green investment over the past few decades. It has very little to say about current carbon storage except that we should be wary of the same schemes with claims that they've scaled to the size of the current crisis because it is most likely that they were simply not doing anything to begin with.