On: What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil?

[perfunctory]

> and make co2 emitters or fuel producers pay for it.

if only this was the case. I am afraid it will instead be subsidised by the tax payer.

[buran77 → perfunctory]

This might also have the desired effect. Increasing the price of a product would make it less desirable. Unless those companies have enough power to lobby and keep adjusting regulations in their favor (hidden subsidies, additional roadblocks for competitors, etc.).

[cameronbrown → perfunctory]

Either way we're spending more because free work doesn't come from nowhere. Mass carbon cleaning will drive the price up on everything.

[DennisP → cameronbrown]

Damage from climate change won't exactly be free either. We're already starting to pay those costs.