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This is really cool! A viable carbon capture technology that is scalable, equitable and is the byproduct of combatting a massive ecological threat. Developing countries getting to use carbon credits to pay for the removal of algae blooms rules omg


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I don't think this is actually all that it's cracked up to be. The company claims that it will make money by selling carbon credits, but the carbon credit system does not reduce carbon emissions.

It's good to clean up algal blooms, and if that does help capture atmospheric CO2 then that would be a good side-effect, but you can't make infinite profit by doing this and scaling up infinitely because then you run out of lakes undergoing an algal bloom and have to start causing algal blooms to capture more carbon.

yeah agree with the skepticism.

carbon credits -- carbon credits create an incentive to land-grab for "conservation purposes" and then turn a profit selling off the credits to polluters. We've seen this "Carbon colonialism" happening already -- Global North conservation orgs land-grab in the Global South, and then use that land to "offset" Global North polluters.

I'd like to hope that a carbon-capture anti-algal-bloom innovation will be used for good, but the track record isn't there, especially considering the "third world could make money from selling carbon credits" part being a big thing in this article ... nevermind the company being Israeli-American. I know nationality =/= ideology but the culture of both countries is very pro-colonialism & anyone born there is going to have to do a lot of unlearning and prove it (I consider it a never-ending thing for myself), or just pass off control of BlueGreen to the "third world" people it says it will help, before I'll tone down the skepticism.

... and the article doesn't even have any dialogue w/ anyone from the "third world"? alright ...

Yeah i wanna be hopeful but :/

but rather than doomer time: let's see what "third world" people are coming up with. I know a few:

sustainable farming, which prevents the runoff that causes blooms, is gaining an increasingly big foothold. Peasants are realising they were lied to. While sometimes money-from-harvest is higher w/ conventional farming, that statistic becomes nonsense when you incorporate the cost of pesticides & herbicides, and also that some sustainable farming profit is lost because people are farming food that they personally consume, and the profit earned by selling harvest in conventional farming is lost by having to buy food

sewage --> holding pond, which is then heavily diluted to just become productive and not eutrophic water --> yummy fish (https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/03/urban-fish-ponds-low-tech-sewage-treatment-for-towns-and-cities)

sewage --> nightsoil

bound to be more. doomer is the mind-killer

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