Europe had at least 30 years to prepare for this (if I’m generous), really it’s more like 50+.
Politics, leaders and society failed.
Like in Austria (where I’m from) they’re not closing schools despite it reaching up to 40°C indoors because they don’t have any law for this case.
Torturing children and teachers instead of finally acknowledging that there’s an ongoing deadly emergency.
Pretending that everything is fine instead of finally acting to protect life.
A true boiling frog experiment.
Carbon capture is a kiloton solution to a gigaton problem. Seperating CO2 at PPB levels is thermodynamicly a wasted effort. The amount of energy used is proportional to the degree of seperation your attempting to accomplish. Not a linear relationship, a power law relationship.
Which is why the ...accounts... pumping it as a downstream solution are either deceived, AI scripts, paid liars, or some combination. Get back to us when you learn how exponents work.
All the money that used to be invested into the human slave trade has moved into the petroleum extraction industry. It's now a global extra-judicial cabal. They knew for decades now that humanities transition away from carbon based energy poses an existential threat that must be met with any means necessary. They haven't been idle those decades and they have the money to buy or destroy anyone or anything that stands in their way.
The global slide into fascim. The Trump reich. Ukraine. Brexit. The sundering of the economic liberal world order. All of these are downstream consequences of that defacto monopoly being threatened with non-existence.
Thomas Fuchs
Beggar Midas
The Liquid Schwartz
Birk Marold