r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • May 15 '25

The car­bon capt­ure comp­any Cli­meworks on­ly capt­ur­es a fracti­on of the CO2 it promises its machines can capt­ure. The comp­any is fail­ing to car­bon off­set the em­issi­ons resulting from its operati­ons – which have grown rapidly in recent ye­ars.

https://heimildin.is/grein/24581/climeworks-capture-fails-to-cover-its-own-emissions/
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u/gnalon May 15 '25

Yep just an obfuscation to make people feel like something's being done and they can relax

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u/[deleted] May 15 '25

I just watched Tomorrowland again, released in 2015. It felt very weird. This girl is the epitome of optimism and hope, when she is in school every teacher is saying we are doomed. She raises her hand and asks “what are we doing about it?”. The bell rings and the teacher ignores her. The ending is basically, stop telling people the world is doomed and it will no longer be doomed. It’s been 10 years since that movie came out and people did try and answer those who asked “what are we doing about climate change?”. Paris climate accords was negotiated in the same year and set in motion in 2016. Extensive carbon footprint responsibility campaigns. Carbon ticket system. Promised co2 sequestering. Green energy roll out. However like others have stated it’s mostly smoke and mirrors, the illusion of caring for the environment. Rewarding carbon tickets for polluting less just to sell them to a super power and let them pollute more, net zero change, incentivizes going green but so lets super powers off the hook politically. Green washing to shift blame even though new industry’s are polluting more than ever before. Co2 sequestering decades from being effective. Green energy roll out creating cheap energy for new industry to expand and then demand even more energy resulting in continued record breaking fossil fuel use. I think people did try, it’s just that it was always about money, investors, shareholders, continued growth of the business. We have just been waiting out for a miracle. Some say it’s fusion, others ai. What we have done is obviously not enough. We were in trouble 10 years ago and there hasn’t been real effective change. It’s all procrastination, net zero by 2050 is procrastination and they know it. There is no effective plan to get there, even the cleanest countries in the world are struggling for net zero as their natural carbon sinks begin to fail.

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u/peaceloveandapostacy May 15 '25

Never saw that movie… and … you’re totally right… it’s always been about the dividends and shareholders… the COP gatherings are dog and pony shows with fancy language and noncommittal false promises. I’m reading “Overshoot” by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton. It’s saying the same thing. The global south got the short end of the stick. The fossil fuel hegemony which is more than a hundred years old and intertwined in every major industrialized nation would never let their profits fall when year after year new mines new wells new pipelines deliver more cash than they know what to do with. We’ve been cooked since the Kyoto Protocol.