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Excess CO2, and the impacts on human cognition from it, are the great threat to civilization. We need geoengineering to strip CO2 out of the atmosphere. Iron seeding* and global Carbon Taxes seem like the best options.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization



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Cody's lab has a great video on this topic. This would also, in thousands of years, create new deposits of oil.

Thousands of years, or millions?

the rich will be able to afford CO2 scrubbers for their airtight houses. Way cheaper

Are you suggesting that the general atmospheric co2 will be so high air will be unbreathable?

They can rise high enough that general indoor levels (which are usually higher) will be high enough to cause constant cognition problems

Modern building techniques and energy efficient designs can ensure that anyway. Regardless of external co2 levels.

Civilization will collapse first, so no.

It doesn't really matter if it's in your house or not; the problem is global warming that's caused by the greenhouse effect that's caused by the CO2 in the upper atmostphere. I like the cut of your gib though.

Indoor CO2 scrubbers (even just to separate CO2 from inside air and exhaust it outside) would be a great technology right now, since it would allow us to reduce ventilation requirements and thus save on heating/cooling costs.

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I think accelerated weathering is the best option:

https://www.vesta.earth/

During the Permian extinction CO2 was 3000 ppm - weathering rocks is how it was fixed back then. We just need to accelerate that natural process.


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