Ah yes, hope I just have these good genes and hope I don't have allergies or overbearing work schedules that make going outside difficult. This totally makes me feel uplifted.

My Dad lived to 92. Was a long time smoker and only quit in his 80's because of COPD. Was also a functional alcoholic his entire adult life. I think staying skinny and being an avid golfer was his secret.

Ahh dammit.. you got me with the plural on friend(s)

Good news, everyone! I’m dying at an unprecedented rate :D

I'm so tired of hearing about this sort of thing. The most scalable, sustainable way to mitigate pollution is not polluting in the first place.

Even if these plants are powered by renewable energy, it's still not as clean as just putting that renewable energy to better use. You know, like powering your house.

Just invest in green energy, my dudes. You simply have to understand it's more efficient than scraping carbon out of the air. It's essentially like refusing to use toilets, and paying someone to follow behind you with a broom and a hose for when you make a mess. Just stop making a damn mess ffs.

This is not a political issue or necessarily an environmental issue--it's about not having to solve a problem that you're creating for yourself.

Carbon capture is cool and all, don't get me wrong, we just can't think about it as the solution to our dirty power problem.

It's too expensive to live to be 100. I can't stand being poor. My grandma and my mom lived to be in their 80s. My dad is still alive, in his 80s. His brothers all lived into their 80s. I'm in my 50s and I have at least 2 major health problems, so I might be lucky to live into my 60s.

Wait until the story airs on Fox, then she will have been groomed and indoctrinated to think that she is a unicorn. They will cry out for the unfair treatment of her being fooled into thinking that unicorns are real. They will also ask why every other kid did not receive a unicorn license, and then demand to know who is bearing the cost of the state issuing a license to a child.

Fuck me, I guess.

I wonder how us Canadians have a relatively long lifespan, there's like 6 months of looking outside, seeing how cold it is and saying "Fuck it."

How do you live forever? Through Christ, who Himself was raised from the dead!

Yeah whats so uplifting about this? Im fucked

of course but burning stuff is not going to end anytime soon. So while we are waiting it might be a good idea to try to clean up the mess we're making.

I'm f-ed on two of those...

But at least I go outside a lot.

My dad is obese and he's 69. My grandma was obese and lived till 86 and my grandpa was obese and lived till he was 92. My grandpa also drunk a bottle of wine a day till he was 91. Guess he shouldn't have stopped 🤷

ELI5 me please, but, once it "collects" the carbon... what does that do? Is it converted into something else? Or do you have a like a little cube of carbon?

Druggies do be acting like they solve everything

Are you a lonely inbred hermit? We have some good news!

What the hell are you talking about?

Why would anyone want to be 100 years old unless she/he belongs to the billionaire class ? Retirement is no longer a reachable goal for our generation.

The issue with trees isn't planting them, it's land to plant them on. And, of course, preventing people from cutting them down.

And here's the issue : instead of fixing the problem at its core (our dependence on combustible fuels), we're more focused on trying to patch the consequences.

Pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere is great, and I may even say necessary. But we ought to get out of creating CO2 in the first place.

I certainly have no interest in getting to 100, there’s no way I will ever afford that

THAT sounds exactly like something an elderly person would say! And, maybe there's something to it? Staying out of other's business = less anxiety? Regardless, words of wisdom.

And.. it's not a plan, just go with the flow, worry about sod all! That's how I'm going.

Humans progressed under feudalism, as well. That's a nonsense argument.

At best you are doing your own circle jerk of how smart and reasonable and centrist you are. You haven't exactly revealed information that leftists don't already know. You've just severely misunderstood leftism because you haven't ever looked in to it, you are just assuming you already know everything there is to know about it.

The alternative to feudalism was also worse. Does that make feudalism good? Does that make feudalism "the best we can do"? No, if course not.

You are arguing that what we have is the best that we can do because you can't imagine an alternative. But you haven't even tried.

"History is full of full -on socialist regimes in lesser countries that fell". That really sums it up for me. You know nothing about the history of socialism. Because that's s complete nonsense statement. You don't even do the bare minimum of asking "how did they define socialism" and "how did it fail". There was no intellectual process. You just assume you already know everything.

Is it a failure of socialism if the US murders your government?

Is a country socialist because they say they are, or because they perform socialism? Can a country be socialist if it does not fulfill the basic principles of socialism?

Then the final question for you: if socialism is inherently a failure, why does this mean there is no alternative to capitalism? Why is suffering of others (you aren't sacrificing yourself doing near slave labor, it's always somebody else) necessary?

Compare your own country to Bangladesh. Would you accept their working conditions? Why not? Why do you think you deserve better but they don't? Are they not equals?