It never even occurred to me that carbon capture might be storing a giant tank of gaseous carbon dioxide. I assumed that it meant chemically reacting the carbon into some kind of solid material which was then discarded as waste, because trying to store huge chambers full of gaseous CO2 at a scale that can impact climate change is clinically insane.

Not that the line starting to go down would represent positive progress on climate change. It would mean only less new damage with every passing year, a smaller progress in worsening the catastrophe that’s already well in motion. But the fact that the line isn’t even going down illustrates the catastrophic absurdity of claiming that we’re making tangible progress with existing policies.

The home we all live is on fire, and we’re still lighting new blazes, while congratulating ourselves that we’re meeting our targets.