According to a new study published in Nature, sequestering carbon by injection into the ground has 1/10 (10 times less) of the capacity we thought it did.
This is important because the corporations and oligarchs, who stand to lose money if we actually pursue Climate Action, have convinced many people that we don't have to stop producing CO2 or change our lifestyles/behaviors because scientists can just innovate it away through sequestration. This has always been a claim that requires a healthy dose of skepticism, but we are now seeing it for what it always was, misdirection.
#1: We must stop emitting carbon! There is no magic wand, and continuing to deny that we must sacrifice some comfort and completely redesign society, will not save us.
#2: It doesn't mean we should stop trying to find ways to sequester carbon or that the practice itself is dubious. We need to find other ways to capture and store this carbon. Let's be creative in our problem solving. (I propose we all build diamond houses.😜)
#3: This is a reminder that Capitalism (or whatever you wish to call this current system) has created a society in which people will cling to power and wealth even until the planet is uninhabitable... they will lie, cheat, steal, and kill to maintain the status quo. This commodification of everything, this "infinite growth" delusion, this religion of the "free market," this corruption of democracy, this parasite that feeds on our bodies and dreams, this sadistic and shallow philosophy that people are just labor and the Earths's resources are just capital... this is not an economic system, this is a collective mental illness.
Climate Destabilization should be the Worlds greatest priority. We can't keep escaping reality, not from the Climate, not from our Institutions, not from our "belief systems," not from our nature as humans. We must embrace reality; only then can we change our fate.
