Bread and CircusesIs technology going to save us from climate change? Are fancy new machines being invented that will suck carbon out of the air and make everything all right again?
No.
➡️ https://heimildin.is/grein/24581/climeworks-capture-fails-to-cover-its-own-emissions/
Climeworks, a leading carbon capture company in Iceland, has not accomplished any of its lofty goals. They are drawing only a fraction of CO₂ from the atmosphere that they claimed would be possible.
Not only that, but the company's own emissions actually *exceed* the amount of carbon they have managed to capture. They are making the problem worse, not better.
Capitalist technology cannot solve the problems caused by capitalist technology. We have to change course.
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Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions
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.
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