The first time I read about CCS I actually laughed out loud. Somehow I’d assumed it would make some kind of usable carbon that we could bury to augment soil, but no. They’re literally catching ~30% of the CO2 gas from an industry’s tailpipe and putting the gas underground in an “airtight” chamber.
It just doesn’t do much of anything. We’re not going to reverse, or even halt climate change with it. For any industry that cannot be made green that has to continue in the future, we should obviously do it, but the claims about it by the fossil fuel industry are severely overinflated.
Honestly, fuck the economy. Areas dependent on fossil fuels should have h
started diversifying decades ago, but they stubbornly refused to — and continue to do so — to their own detriment. We’ve known for a long time that being entirely dependent on a single natural resource for the bulk of our jobs and trade was a bad idea: just look at the mill towns in BC when their mills closed. At how devastating the softwood lumber disputes were. It was pure hubris for provincial and local governments to push forward with continued dependence on single resource economies.
I agree that we’ll never entirely end fossil fuel use because plastics are an amazing material, but I absolutely do not agree that we need to continue fossil fuel extraction for the sake of the “economy.” This is shortsighted thinking: the “economy” will be destroyed in the longterm by climate change. Natural disasters, human displacement, crop failures, water shortages, wildfires, the list goes on and on.
The first time I read about CCS I actually laughed out loud. Somehow I’d assumed it would make some kind of usable carbon that we could bury to augment soil, but no. They’re literally catching ~30% of the CO2 gas from an industry’s tailpipe and putting the gas underground in an “airtight” chamber.
Like, are you kidding me?
It’s a practical stopgap measure tbh. CCS is cheap
It just doesn’t do much of anything. We’re not going to reverse, or even halt climate change with it. For any industry that cannot be made green that has to continue in the future, we should obviously do it, but the claims about it by the fossil fuel industry are severely overinflated.
Fossil fuels are too important for both our economy and for basic goods (plastics…) to be eliminated.
Honestly, fuck the economy. Areas dependent on fossil fuels should have h started diversifying decades ago, but they stubbornly refused to — and continue to do so — to their own detriment. We’ve known for a long time that being entirely dependent on a single natural resource for the bulk of our jobs and trade was a bad idea: just look at the mill towns in BC when their mills closed. At how devastating the softwood lumber disputes were. It was pure hubris for provincial and local governments to push forward with continued dependence on single resource economies.
I agree that we’ll never entirely end fossil fuel use because plastics are an amazing material, but I absolutely do not agree that we need to continue fossil fuel extraction for the sake of the “economy.” This is shortsighted thinking: the “economy” will be destroyed in the longterm by climate change. Natural disasters, human displacement, crop failures, water shortages, wildfires, the list goes on and on.