The way that Occidental Petroleum is building direct air capture plants in order to create social permission to keep on extracting fossil fuels is fundamentally backwards:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/occidental-plans-to-suck-carbon-from-the-airso-it-can-keep-pumping-oil-2990c5a?st=v6kjz0pwpi8562h

The reality is that we need to be cutting fossil fuel use to approximately zero so that this kind of CO2 removal program can make a meaningful difference:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00953-x

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