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This 3,775-year-old log may hold the secret to slowing climate change | Figuring out ways of locking carbon out of the atmosphere, such as by burying wood, is key to stalling the worst consequences (wapo.st)
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[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you can get it into the log and then underground. It's all pointless though unless we fix the problem at the source...

We need to blow up the sun

[–] lunachocken@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

But it's in a constant state of exploding

[–] MalReynolds 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Duh, sequestering carbon by burying logs beats randon fossill fues baron's 'carbon capture' by a country mile. Who'd a thunk.

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