The truth is that in a world without fossil fuels, we may not have the luxury to waste the energy needed for carbon removal.
Working on carbon removal counting on the fact that someone will discover a clean energy that can actually compete with today's use of fossil fuels is close to 4D chess: we don't have that clean energy and it's pretty sure we won't have it in time. Therefore it is probably useless to throw tons of money on CO2 removal.
What is necessary, though, is to stop carbon emissions. We could throw money at isolating buildings, for instance.
The thing is that to reduce carbon emissions, we have to do less. And in a capitalist world, that's hard to accept. We need to change our model of society and accept that economical growth = CO2 emissions.
Working on carbon removal counting on the fact that someone will discover a clean energy that can actually compete with today's use of fossil fuels is close to 4D chess: we don't have that clean energy and it's pretty sure we won't have it in time. Therefore it is probably useless to throw tons of money on CO2 removal.
What is necessary, though, is to stop carbon emissions. We could throw money at isolating buildings, for instance.
The thing is that to reduce carbon emissions, we have to do less. And in a capitalist world, that's hard to accept. We need to change our model of society and accept that economical growth = CO2 emissions.