The idea of a CO2 neutral economy is another utopia fantasy sold to the ignorant voters by politicians. Easy to sell. Easy to form voting groups around it. Who doesn't want to be for "saving the planet".
And yet, we know, without a shadow of a doubt, that we cannot do a thing about atmospheric CO2 accumulation and the climate effects surrounding it. Not a thing. This is what we know --scientifically, not guessing here: If humanity left the planet today and all of our technology simply shut down, it would take somewhere around 50,000 and 100,000 years for atmospheric CO2 to come down 100 ppm. This leads to a very simple conclusion: If such an extreme measure produces a rate of change of 100 ppm / 100K years, a partial measure will not improve on that rate at all.
So, no, a carbon neutral economy will do nothing. Neither will switching to electric cars, full solar and wind power, etc. All fantasies. Sorry. We are being lied to and we are deceiving ourselves.
The idea of a CO2 neutral economy is another utopia fantasy sold to the ignorant voters by politicians. Easy to sell. Easy to form voting groups around it. Who doesn't want to be for "saving the planet".
And yet, we know, without a shadow of a doubt, that we cannot do a thing about atmospheric CO2 accumulation and the climate effects surrounding it. Not a thing. This is what we know --scientifically, not guessing here: If humanity left the planet today and all of our technology simply shut down, it would take somewhere around 50,000 and 100,000 years for atmospheric CO2 to come down 100 ppm. This leads to a very simple conclusion: If such an extreme measure produces a rate of change of 100 ppm / 100K years, a partial measure will not improve on that rate at all.
So, no, a carbon neutral economy will do nothing. Neither will switching to electric cars, full solar and wind power, etc. All fantasies. Sorry. We are being lied to and we are deceiving ourselves.