Climate change

Why couldnt we make an enourmous platform in the middle of the ocean, plant millions of plants there and pump out the oxygen? Make specialized technology to only suck in carbon dioxide, have the plants make it into oxygen, and pump it outside of the massive fortress. I’d like to see some sort of growth on this, cause apparently if we don’t do something the earth is dead.

We can do all of those things.

But, how will you pay for them without the current fossil fuel economy? ;^)

The logical answer to that is the UN passing an act that makes Earth preservation projects a sort of team building activity. “Contribute to the preservation of earth, or you will no longer be protected under our laws”

chekt

that will fall on it's face in record time
the only reason the UN has any power at all is because they can use the USA as a hammer

If u wanna fix the environment embargo the gooks until they stop

>blame the Chinese REEE despite cumulative anthropogenic carbon emission in the past 200 years is due mostly to industrialized western nation

China just beginning to industrialize at best in the 80s and 90s. US and Western Europe had 200 years head start on polluting the planet

>a single entity restricting resources unless you follow their rules
This would be >logical if humans weren't human

What happens when the plants die? Does the carbon disappear? I'm afraid it doesn't. Planting forests doesn't suck out carbon endlessly, eventually there is an equilibrium between plant photosynthesis, plant respiration, and the decay of organic matter.
If, as you say, we could somehow only let oxygen out, then eventually we would perhaps have a dense amount of carbon there. However, this carbon would be waiting to be released. I think there other methods of carbon sequestration that are more plausible.

iron seeding of the ocean is a similar idea
the vast majority of carbon is locked up in rocks, we just have to find a way to accelerate hydrolysis but shell-forming organisms are threatened by ocean acidification due to CO2
It might make more sense to raise plankton, foraminifera and other shell-forming organisms as opposed to plants if you want to sequester carbon
maybe plants grow faster but they decompose when they die, shells don't