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Why not turn municipal tree waste into biochar? (www.c40.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I grew up being taught El Nino isn't a big deal and it's just the seasons going through their normal cycle. But with Super El Nino, I finally bothered to read about climate change, and now it's a rabbit hole I can't get out of. I calculated my own personal carbon footprint, and I feel disgusted with myself :(

I looked up all the ways to decrease my own footprint- but now I learned that's not enough, we also need to capture and lockup all the extra carbon that's in the air now too.

I read about all the ways to do that, and I learned about biochar and it's relatively the quickest way we have right now that locks carbon up for at least a century if done right.

So I thought about ways to make biochar that's actually impactful, and of course it has to be a collective action not just the individual.

Now I'm thinking, why don't cities adopt a biochar bin for their residents just like Stockholm? Is this something I can advocate for my own community?

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It's also not quite right. If you're burning wood thoroughly for power you get pure ash, which is just carbon neutral. You get charcoal in campfires because they're inefficient, and even then it's mostly ash. Carbon neutral is still better than fossil fuels, though!

I think the most discouraging about this for me is that even though I’ve seen countless headlines about climate change, I’ve never really bothered to be curious about it until now. Now I wish I knew how to tell this to other people without sounding like alarmist.

FWIW, it makes me feel better that there's people like you out there, who just didn't know the whole story yet, and who could still change and improve. Way too many people don't want to know inconvenient things.

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