That was the delay phase, after the denial phase. Now we’re in the fatalism phase. (Carbon capture is a ruse.) To be clear the best time to stop burning fossil fuels was yesterday, the next best time is today. Fatalism, like delay and denial, only serve to line investors’ pockets and imperil all life on this planet for centuries or millennia to come. It’s unfathomable

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I feel like the updated title fits better: Canada’s promises to capture carbon span almost 20 years, with little gains

Two decades of records show Canadian politicians making big promises about carbon capture technology.

In 2008, one government report claimed Canada could capture as much as 600 million tonnes of carbon a year — and carbon capture technology could be “implemented quickly.”

From 2000 to 2024, a total of just 68.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide was captured across Canada and experts say the technology has yet to be proven at scale.

I remember years ago thinking, “If no one makes physical changes then “money savings” isn’t going to help a whole helluva lot”. I get offering a carrot stick of hope though.

The ugly truth - our current way of life does not price in the real cost of the environment. Go look on the shelves of every store from groceries to clothing and even online stores. You can buy anything from anywhere from around the world but at what environmental cost were they shipped there? Produced? Sure the prices are set at what the capitalistic market can take, but it almost always exclude the cost on the environment.

Companies are not going to magically give up their arbitraged profits to fix the environment unless regulated to do so. The carbon tax was one of many ways to approach this.

We can say to stop burning fossil fuels today, but the big underlying problem is the system we’re all stuck in because the leaders and politicians are simply unwilling to take the hard path for the greater long term good. We’re facing the problem of ‘tragedy of the commons’ but among nations. Blaming the single regular consumer is a red herring. Sure we can all make individual choices to consume less, buy something more ethical/local, but we all know that under the overwhelming capitalistic corporate systems, the regular consumer has no real choices.

Until real proper regulation is done across the entire globe, it’s a race to see who can benefit the most before the world’s current ecosystem is completely fucked. The fucked up part is - if we simply moved slower - we could have all the things we have today, but no.