When water gets in short enough supply, we will burn coal, garbage, tires, anything to power desalination plants.
The same designer made this Terracooler which is also a fascinating idea.
You’re actually right. We’ll probably burn garbage and radio hosts will call people against burning garbage effeminate names.
As you can set it up to burn very hot and have all sorts of scrubbers on the outcomes.
We are scrambling to find ways to capture atmospheric carbon and store it underground and burning garbage is literally the opposite of that.
You'd have to do the math, it's not manifestly obvious that it's not the case (especially once you consider all the transportation involved in sending waste around the country and across the ocean).
Maybe people prefer incinerators in their community over landfills in their community (unclear), but if that's the case, that's a policy decision and not one that seeks to minimize carbon emissions.
It's likely that landfill are the way to go in many cases, but people don't like them.