Our current situation is like a big glass of ice tea that you have set out in the sun. For some time it will remain cool and refreshing, but once the ice cubes have finished melting it quickly becomes warm and blah. We need to move it back into the shade, but that's not possible until we've invested heavily into carbon sequestration, and that's not even fully feasible yet. There are a few pilot programs here and there, but nothing that could be scaled up affordably. Not even close. Worse, any solution requires political will to implement, and as you can see from even this thread there are rich and powerful interests willing to spend a lot of lobbying money to make anything like it as politically unpopular as possible. Even in a normally calm and rational HN forum you have them stopping only slightly short of calling climate change activists the new Hitler. Carbon Capture is supposed to be the supply side of the carbon market, but since the technology doesn't exist those markets have never worked.
Our current situation is like a big glass of ice tea that you have set out in the sun. For some time it will remain cool and refreshing, but once the ice cubes have finished melting it quickly becomes warm and blah. We need to move it back into the shade, but that's not possible until we've invested heavily into carbon sequestration, and that's not even fully feasible yet. There are a few pilot programs here and there, but nothing that could be scaled up affordably. Not even close. Worse, any solution requires political will to implement, and as you can see from even this thread there are rich and powerful interests willing to spend a lot of lobbying money to make anything like it as politically unpopular as possible. Even in a normally calm and rational HN forum you have them stopping only slightly short of calling climate change activists the new Hitler. Carbon Capture is supposed to be the supply side of the carbon market, but since the technology doesn't exist those markets have never worked.