Amazon is the latest big tech company to buy into the idea of filtering carbon dioxide out of the air as an effort to combat climate change.
The company is backing an oil giant, Occidental Petroleum, with a $800,000 purchase of 250,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from its subsidiary 1PointFive.
This is just the latest in a stream of announcements from Big Tech companies turning to emerging carbon removal technologies to help them meet their climate goals.
Sucking CO2 outof the atmosphere is one way to try to undo the damage caused by pollution companies have already created.
But much of the carbon removal industry has deep ties to oil and gas.
Even if companies like Amazon pay to deal with their pollution this way, it doesn’t necessarily stop them from continuing to create more of the pollution by burning fossil fuels.
It’s possible that they will continue to pollute the same way today.
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