Did anyone watch 4 Corners about carbon capture and storage? My worst fears have been realised. There are none working in the world, there won’t be for at least 7 or so years, and they wont be ‘economically’ viable until at least 2030. The coal companies do not have to pay for their emissions and have no incentive to clean up their act. In fact, they are doing all they can to stall it because of the massive costs required to actually create these plants. It is all a massive crock of shit. George Bush and John Howard were supposed to make the first one in America (under NextGen) and after years, it fell through. This was investigated and it turned out to be a massive PR ploy to make it LOOK like they were doing something about global warming, but in fact they did not believe it and had no intention of going through with it.

Even if they did make these plants (and they would need to make hundreds all over the world – something not possible til at least around 2050 or later) they would need to store the equivilent amount of CO2 as the oil we are taking OUT of the earth. This is probably not possible in itself. So what does this all boil down to? It is all about money, and money in politics. It is means we are doomed because of it. Of course, if the Greens were voted in, this could change – a most unlikely scenario because HUMANS ARE STUPID ASS HOLES! All anyone cares about is the bloody economy, something which will also be destroyed anyway!

Yes, it is fare to say that the program infuriated me. It seems all so clear, but very few of us will do anything about it. I honestly think we have no hope, other than a massive global disaster or something which would destroy society as we know it.

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