Environment & Energy

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... wouldn't that make them a carbon sink? ( Assuming the fuel used to carry these plastics to their final resting place in landfills was "carbon neutral." )

Concrete and other building materials could also be carbon sinks with nuclear power inputs.

We keep pretending some magical technical solution will come along and displace coal, oil, and gas.

It's not going to happen until we truly decide to quit fossil fuels. Quitting fossil fuels is the step that comes first, the rest follows. Pick some dates and stick to them. No more new fossil fuel power plants, starting today. We start tearing down fossil fuel power plants starting next year. And so on. That's the only way any "transition" happens.

The trouble is that nobody wants to be inconvenienced in any way, most especially the more affluent citizens of this world who somehow still believe they'll be insulated from the worst impacts of global warming up until the day they discover their insurance (or their money) is worthless.