Big oil helped shape Stanford’s latest climate-research focus
Opposing nuclear was the first catastrophic mistake environmentalists made, causing them to be a net negative overall in terms of climate change. Opposing carbon capture will be the next (and possibly last) one.<p>If you think climate change is a serious problem, then you need to put aside your moral beliefs and think like an engineer about solutions. There is no math that allows you to conserve&#x2F;renewables your way to 2C while accommodating the expected growth in living standards in India, China, and Africa. And any strategy that doesn’t allow people in the developing world to dramatically increase their standard of living is a non-starter that will create billions of enemies for the environmental movement. India recently committed to go carbon neutral by 2070: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thehindu.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national&#x2F;developing-countries-need-much-longer-beyond-2050-to-reach-net-zero-joint-statement-by-india-china-other-nations&#x2F;article65505344.ece" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thehindu.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;national&#x2F;developing-countries-...</a>. That’s too late, and they won’t meet that anyway. The developed world needs to go carbon negative as fast as possible.