Once we blow through the carbon sinks, it’s down the drain for us
Another sign that the economists’ central myth, their creation story in a sense — that there is a replacement for anything scarce and the replacement appears whenever the price of the depeleting resource gets high enough — is the most dangerous fantasy in the world:
Alas, there are no replacement carbon sinks, and we seemed to have filled ours up. Now we learn that, after you’re through in the sinks, you head down the drain.
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