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  • For all his talk about increasing economic productivity in terms of producing more goods, all I see is more resource extraction.

    Carbon capture is a darling of the oil industry that allows them to keep doing business as usual. It requires an insane amount of often unclean electricity and is vapourware that does not work at scale. Oil companies love carbon capture, just like they love “natural gas” that lets them sell biproducts of fracking.

    Nuclear is great but our climate does not have the 10 years it takes to build a reactor.

    Where we’re headed, we’ll end up with more oil output, more emissions, more car-dependency, and a bunch of partially completed projects in 10 years.

    This needs more focus on low carbon public transit and fast and achievable solar and wind.

    It is abundantly clear that even if every automobile was replaced with an EV, we’d still bake our planet. Mining the ring of fire is a profit-seeking, extractive venture and not a climate solution.