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Pretty sure they will find a way to look good on paper while still doing more harm than good
"In order to adequately test our new carbon capture system, obviously, we had to dump a couple trillion more tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Which, yeah, granted, does make it all that much more upsetting that the system didn't actually work."
They'll all buy credits, problem solved!
Can we rebrand normal taxation as Non Fungible Energy Credits??
Considering that the USD is sometimes called the "petrodollar", we're just a name-change away.
"We changed the legal definition of carbon and have saved the planet"
They already do! It's called carbon credits
They will probably overdo it, probably with iron fertilisation of the ocean, and start a fucking ice age.
It is a distinct possibility.