CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28875492

Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows, deepening the climate crisis that is already taking lives and livelihoods across the world.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 days ago

    When countries don’t do heavy manufacturing, don’t raise all their own food etc, they are striking absolutely staggering amounts of carbon and other pollution from their accounting. But that’s just fake. Their economy still produces that waste.

    For sure carbon accounting, needed for carbon tax and dividend, should have 100% of the “responsibility” on the consumer side, which works fine for imposing carbon tariffs on the exporting country, which get passed down to domestic consumer (who can afford to buy stuff because of dividend).

    China outsources stuff like mining, machining etc now. China does the final assembly…

    Mining can be global, but China does a lot of the refining and machining. At any rate, mining equipment getting electrified, and using vast land resources unusable for any other purposes surrounding mines for solar to power mining equipment is a great investment, and something to expect in near term as a vast growing sector.