Hansen, James E.; et al. (2016): Young Peoples Burden: Requirement of Negative CO2 Emissions
Hansen, James E.; Sato, Makiko; Kharecha, Pushker A.; et al. (2016): Young People’s Burden: Requirement of Negative CO2 Emissions. In Cornell University Library.
„In contrast, continued high fossil fuel emissions by the current generation would place a burden on young people to undertake massive technological CO2 extraction, if they are to limit climate change. Proposed methods of extraction such as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) or air capture of CO2 imply minimal estimated costs of 104-570 trillion dollars this century, with large risks and uncertain feasibility. Continued high fossil fuel emissions unarguably sentences young people to either a massive, possibly implausible cleanup or growing deleterious climate impacts or both.“