Between April 2021 and October 2024, British physicist Michael de Podesta paid £40 per month to carbon capture company Climeworks. In return, the company promised to remove 50 kilograms of carbon dioxide each month. But in September 2024, de Podesta wrote that “when I checked the other day they had removed precisely no CO₂ from the atmosphere”.
The following day, de Podesta wrote, “I conclude that I am indeed a gullible idiot.”
Climateworks’ business model involves selling carbon credits for CO₂ that it hopes to capture in the future
Good scam if you can convince people…so have they convinced anyone
Microsoft, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Stripe, Shopify, British Airways, Lego, Swiss Air, PwC, and TikTok.
Oh /s
I guess “in the future” is a promise you can always give, like “free beeer tomorrow”
But cars are certainly on the path. Along with many facets of our modern comfortable lives.
Even the most ambitious climate agreements are mere consolation prizes. The only way to reverse course is global eco-fascism, for the sole reason that you cannot entice enough people to sacrifice for the public good to matter, you have to force them at the end of a gun.
Desuburbanization - forcing people out of their 4000sqft SFHs and into 700sqft urban apartment units like a bizarro Pol Pot. Seizing personal vehicles and letting them rot on the side of the road or in the desert. And yes, using military force to seize cruise liners and sink them to the bottom, and more broadly to shut down harmful industry.
None of that will ever happen though, because in our society violence serves capitalism, it will never seek to destroy it. So you are correct, everyone here should be on the Collapse communities rather then here.