I didn't read the article but I did scan it and I saw this...
Oil and gas companies lobbied for the direct air capture money to be included in the law, arguing that the world could continue to burn fossil fuels if it had a way to clean up their planet-warming pollution.
I looked it up and about 50 billion tons of CO~2~ are released each year. They're patting themselves on their backs for their plan to reduce CO~2~ emissions by a whole 0.04%. Climate change has been solved, everyone!
Ha that’s actually a lot higher than I’d have guessed. The Times’s centering of personal vehicles in their explanation both exaggerates the direct impact of this project, and perpetuates the narrative of climate change being a crisis of people’s personal habits.
And they're 100% going to use this as an excuse to not scale back the burning of fossil fuels in the slightest. Because they'll try literally anything else before going after capital.
Edit: wait nvm, they already directly said that lmao
dammit where's our guillotine emojis when you need them
I think on the Internet we call that “mask off”. Notice that they use the term “fossil fuels” instead of “carbon fuels”. They have no vision of participating in an energy revolution that replaces fossil fuels. I could swear there was a trans flag guillotine emoji.
That's a bingo.
Less fucking cars would cut down emissions so much more, but car treats go vroom vroom.