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A.J. Sutter's avatar

I'm in Japan. It's a pretty nice country. We now have horrendous flooding in western Japan recurring annually. We have red sand blowing in from China. And we have rice shortages and ridiculous prices that are seriously affecting food availability for everyone, but especially the elderly and the poor. In part the shortages are caused by government policies, but also to a great degree by rising temperatures and changes in the seasons. Oh, and fishermen are catching fewer fish. Two points: (i) Don't tell people living here these aren't crises. (ii) Ocean carbon removal is not going to work soon enough to address these problems for people living now.

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Rationalista's avatar

I still can’t call it a crisis- it is slow moving and the world will adapt. The more people in marginal 3rd world conditions develop the less it will affect them, and that development makes everyone better off.

But I completely agree that the inexpensive carbon control mechanisms are key, because nobody is going to pay for the super fancy stuff unless it can be productized.

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