Arfin,
Iceland is now home to two pieces of technology that could be the key to our planet's future: carbon-capture plants. These huge factories are essentially giant air purifiers that suck carbon out of the air, mix them with water, and store them in the ground.
The first plant opened in 2021 and the second is going live this year. Together, they are able to remove approximately 40,000 metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year. But this is only a tiny fraction of what we need to recapture in order to avoid warming the planet past the point of no return.
Nations of the world — especially the main polluters, including the U.S., China, and India, which account for nearly half of all emissions worldwide — are already falling far behind when it comes to cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Luckily, several other carbon-sequestering plants are already in the works. One in Texas should capture 500,000 metric tons of carbon each year, while another in Louisiana should remove 1 million tons, and a third in Wyoming is designed to sequester 5 million tons per year. Combined together, they would be equal to removing approximately 1,190,000 cars from the roads.
We've been needing technology exactly like these factories — and now we need to implement this technology everywhere. These projects are an excellent start. But they're only a start. They can only become part of the solution once these plants are set up across the globe.
Help us ask major international leaders, including the governments of the U.S., China, India, Japan, the UK, and the EU to build their own giant air filter plants to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere! |
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