Comment on New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂ - Ars Technica

umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reducing emissions alone may not be enough for the survival of most existing flora and fauna.

  The problem is that it will take an extended period of time for nature to pull all of the existing CO2 back out of the atmosphere. We may not survive long enough. The existing plants and whatnot that do it may not survive long enough to recover once its done.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yeah i know. but we could have dealt with it before it got this bad.

    i feel uneasy at using the lowest cost possible solution (because we know thats whats gonna be) to compensate for it in our biosphere. i fear for the possible undiscovered side effect of messing with our flora’s genetics in a hurry to keep the planet cool.

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    • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Believe it or not, I am right there with you on this. There is little to no way that I can see to do this without leaving most plants facing more competition than they can possibly cope with. Maybe start with islands that already have low plant biodiversity, and try to splice as many of each variety of plant there as possible at once? … but that’s all I’ve got.

      Spliced Oceanic Algeas would probably just fill the oceans to the point of killing everything else in them.

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