basalt dust on the ground absorbs *significant* amounts of CO2 - UK estimated it would account for maybe a 1/3 of their annual CO2 release. And it both improves soil and reduces the need for fossil fuel derived fertilizers.

The US alone would need to plant a Dakota sized area *every year* to account for our CO2 release. And in 80 years, now you need to plant 2 of those areas every year since the first is now decomposing.

We don’t really have a choice but to recapture it. We’re seeing just the very tippy tippy tip of the effects of it’s presence. An immediate stop of CO2 release today would still result in 50 years of continued warming.

The value isn’t monetary, at least not directly. It will be measured in dozens of trillions of dollars, but at that point the money isn’t the issue. An actual survivable environment *requires* massive carbon capture.

funny, you nor the IRS knows where or when they were purchased. So the fact that I purchased them yesterday for 1/2 what I’m selling them for today means I don’t have to pay tax on that income?  How exactly do they know the difference?

That’s great.  So in 40 years we can start worrying about people selling a ticket on eBay....that will even the playing field.

Appreciate your admission that it’s only recently that we’ve started looking at the returns of the wealthy...who’ve been given a pass for *decades*

Given how the millionaires and billionaires avoid *any* taxes at all, maybe that should be the damned focus and not people selling 3 old TVs on eBay.

Exactly.  I’m quite sure they’d get permission to drop it in the Pacific graveyard.   They apparently want to shoot it at ppl ;-)

liability is a cruel mistress if you’re into that sort of thing.

never understood that. I absolutely hate when I see a hatch or something with massive tumblehome(?). Just wasted storage space.

regardless, the CEO pay isn’t the main issue. 20 mil x 50,000 hourly workers is a paltry $400/yr.

And when the slight shift in weight brings down a section that’s holding the rest of it up, you can pay the claim?

Yep. 3 legged stool that will need balancing.

When your consumption is 100% electric, you can make everything green at the source. Can’t do that with natural gas.

Yeah the article def dances around the absolutes of temps. But it also matters annually, so many cheap efficient months can easily offset a few high cost ones.

Sure, but in terms of CO2 cleanup, they are much much cheaper.  And that’s the expense we need to start including when making these comparisons.

As did Standard Oil once upon a time. We need to elect people with balls of yesteryear to start breaking these oligarchs off at the knees.

As someone who’s within sight of my retirement age...it really depends. Your expenses don’t really change, and given medical costs and age, may even go up in retirement.

I think one of the reasons, that I don’t entirely dispute nor really agree with, is that it’s supposedly its not as useful if you’ve already been infected. With the high rates of infection...that makes it less bang for the buck to give it to older people etc. I think the lack of male access was just due to populations…