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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I don't clean as frequently as my wife, but I think it comes down to differences in behavior in general. She's less careful and makes perhaps 4x more mess or more than I do, but then cleans more often. I'm more careful, preferring not to make the mess in the first place, and clean less frequently.
Seems to reason not emitting something in the first place is easier than trying to emit and then try to remove later, though containment is easier to deal with than cleaning something uncontained.
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I guess it depends on what you are doing. Sometimes making a big mess and then cleaning it up is more time and cost effective than trying to not make a mess while getting a job done. Construction comes to mind. You could do a little work, then clean it all up, then do more, but it's more time friendly to just put all the waste into a growing pile and take care of it and the cleanup at then end when the work is done.
I would think reducing CO2 emissions would be less expensive than removing existing CO2 in the atmosphere but the proposals to reduce seem to be very expensive. Natural production and removal of CO2 also DWARF man made production. If there was a way to encourage more natural removal or limit natural production at some level, it might be more efficient than working on the man made side.