Comment Re:Mandate carbon neutrality (Score 1) 95
Sorry to rain on your parade, but "Neutrality" wont get us out of this mess.
We are already into our carbon "Overdraft" so-to-speak.
We need a carbon negative civilisation. Net Zero is a #Propaganda term
and its an insufficient target, the targets to achieve "Net Zero" are not even in the right ballpark.
The fact that : "$80 per ton for forest projects versus $1,000 for direct air capture"
is true gives away several key facts.
1) That we will fail - on the grounds that the motivation to solve the problem is to profit rather than prevent our kids dying from respiritory failure, starvation due to failed crops or extrme weather.
2) One of these technologies ( forests ) is proven to work at scale and has done for millenia
yet were cutting them down faster than replanting them, because its more profitable. Strengthening
my first point
3) Microsoft see the truth, but the penny hasnt dropped yet, they still think that profiting from disaster
is a valid stance.