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Occidental Petroleum is investing in billion-dollar projects to suck carbon dioxide out of the sky. The effort is raising hopes — and eyebrows

By Daniel Estrin, Camila Domonoske

3-Minute Listen / Transcript available

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/08/1198373683/sucking-carbon-dioxide-out-of-the-sky-is-moving-from-science-fiction-to-reality

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[–] elouboub@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They make the disease to sell you the cure that makes the disease.

It's just a ploy to make more money for big oiland gas. Then they don't have to invest in alternative technologies as that's expensive. All they have to do is invest in a tech that allows them to continue polluting as before and claim that they actually aren't polluting.

And people fall for it.

[–] wagoner@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

And likely get government funding and tax credits to do it. Again.