Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.
Graciela ChichilniskyCO2 from air can replace petroleum: it can produce plastics and acetate, it can produce carbon fibers that replace metals and clean hydrocarbons, such as synthetic gasoline. We can use CO2 to desalinate water, enhance the production of vegetables and fruit in greenhouses, carbonate our beverages and produce biofertilizers that enhance the productivity of the soil without poisoning it. Carbon negative technology is absolutely needed now.
Graciela ChichilniskyIf nuclear warfare is believed to be somewhat controlled, then climate change is now the greatest threat.
Graciela ChichilniskyThe transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive.
Graciela ChichilniskyWe have to remove the CO2 that the industrial economy has already emitted, which otherwise will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years and alter the Earth's climate irreversibly. It is possible to do this.
Graciela ChichilniskyWe know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civilization. This realization is traumatic and the first reaction to trauma is denial. Since there is some remaining scientific uncertainty, a natural response is to deny that change is occurring. This is natural but it is very dangerous.
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