The point isn’t whether or not to invest in carbon capture tech. The point is that carbon capture tech is inconsequential to the climate crisis on any relevant timescale, and the #1 reason used to justify continued emissions by every major contributing industry, even though THEY KNOW that it is at least 30+ years away from being economically viable on any scale that could justify it as a solution (when we’re already at 2–3c).
The ONLY way we have a reasonable chance to avoid a 2+ c world is to dramatically reduce emissionsthis decade, by an order of 50+% at least using existing, proven solutions — distant, non-existent, unproven, future-tech can not save us from the present, so don’t even bother getting your hopes up.
The point isn’t whether or not to invest in carbon capture tech. The point is that carbon capture tech is inconsequential to the climate crisis on any relevant timescale, and the #1 reason used to justify continued emissions by every major contributing industry, even though THEY KNOW that it is at least 30+ years away from being economically viable on any scale that could justify it as a solution (when we’re already at 2–3c).
The ONLY way we have a reasonable chance to avoid a 2+ c world is to dramatically reduce emissions this decade, by an order of 50+% at least using existing, proven solutions — distant, non-existent, unproven, future-tech can not save us from the present, so don’t even bother getting your hopes up.
This Al Gore TED talk should help you understand why.