well, they're doing their best to sell it, but I'm not buying it. Anybody interested in the technology side of global warming should read the book "Drawdown", by Paul Hawken. It describes 100 approaches to reducing CO2 emissions or its effect, and scores them according to their effectiveness. Sadly, CCS is just an also-ran.
We need to spend our first billions on the low-hanging fruit.
We are fiddling while Rome is burning. Our CO2 emissions are still rising and so is the Earth's temperature. But the nations have still not agreed on a common policy to tackle it, the leader of the richest and most polluting nation is in denial and we have no technology to use against it. According to James Lovelock, we have already passed the point of no return, anyway. Homo Sapiens has had its turn, no species lasts for forever. Fare the well.
I appreciate your sentiment, but I think climate apocalysm is not a good philosophy or policy. I'd encourage anybody to read Matt Yglesias' opinion piece on this,
well, they're doing their best to sell it, but I'm not buying it. Anybody interested in the technology side of global warming should read the book "Drawdown", by Paul Hawken. It describes 100 approaches to reducing CO2 emissions or its effect, and scores them according to their effectiveness. Sadly, CCS is just an also-ran.
We need to spend our first billions on the low-hanging fruit.
We are fiddling while Rome is burning. Our CO2 emissions are still rising and so is the Earth's temperature. But the nations have still not agreed on a common policy to tackle it, the leader of the richest and most polluting nation is in denial and we have no technology to use against it. According to James Lovelock, we have already passed the point of no return, anyway. Homo Sapiens has had its turn, no species lasts for forever. Fare the well.
I appreciate your sentiment, but I think climate apocalysm is not a good philosophy or policy. I'd encourage anybody to read Matt Yglesias' opinion piece on this,
https://www.slowboring.com/p/we-need-reality-based-energy-policy
, which refers to this primer on whether we are doomed or not,
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/13/18660548/climate-change-human-civilization-existential-risk
Zeke Hausfather is another believable expert who says the situation is dire, but not hopeless. I'll post a link if you wish.