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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/charizardvoracidous on 2023-12-09 09:14:09.

Original Title: “If the world is emitting just under 40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in a year, how far back in time could this year’s total carbon removal take us? Right now, the answer is somewhere around 10 seconds.”