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		Retric on May 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021) That’s perfectly reasonable in the short term. Long term however we don’t want to endlessly extract CO2 either, so eventually we will want a pure equilibrium state with zero net gain or loss in atmospheric CO2.

lisper on May 3, 2022 [–]

Yes, of course. But I don't see any circumstances under which returning the carbon in plastics to the atmosphere contributes to that goal.

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