Nothing uplifting about this. It’s a distraction from the real solution. Corporations would love nothing more than to convince us that carbon capture will solve our problems so we can continue on business as usual.
As I understand it, even if we stop 100% of greenhouse gas emissions right now, we’re past the tipping point of self-sustaining climate change. Meaning we absolutely need carbon capture in some form as well as stopping emissions. This isn’t the solution on its own but it is a necessary part of the solution.
I appreciate that there are people out there trying to sell this as the solution, but don’t let that distract from the actual importance of carbon capture.
I would welcome being corrected about self-sustaining climate change if I’m wrong about this. It would be a load off my mind.
Yeah, basically what my partner says about this. She does climate adaptation research, and says we need carbon capture.
I just get so annoyed when this is presented as THE solution.
Honestly the fact that we aren’t treating climate change like a ww2 style economic all hands on deck type of situation says a lot about our species in my opinion. It just makes me sad bcz we could stop the worst climate change effects, and it seems like we kinda just don’t want to at this point.
You’re correct. We need to plant trees too. Cut fossil emissions asap. But even that likely won’t be enough. Figuring out carbon capture is a worthwhile endeavor.
Something good isn’t uplifting?
Yeah, it doesn’t tackle the root cause, but it’s definitely a positive.
It’ll take 30,000+ of these facilities to be meaningful.
And that number will come down as these tests are run and the technology matures.
