Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will
The only thing this narrative will accomplish is failure.   Nobody will support significant sacrifice to combat climate change.   Luckily they don't have to.<p>Of course we won't be able to capture and store 37 gigatonnes of carbon annually.  That's ludicrous.<p>The path is straightforward:  electrify everything, and make the grid green.  There are only three major industries that are difficult to electrify: cement, steel and air travel.   Steel & air travel can use hydrogen.   For cement, you use low carbon processes to get carbon emissions down to about 10% of previous, and then store the rest.   That's just a hundreds of megatonnes, and that is feasible.<p>Electrifying (almost) everything will cost a lot of money up front, but will save a ton of money in the long run.   And renewable energy is a lot cheaper.   And will provide a ton of jobs.  So consumption is going to go up, not down.<p><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/electrify" rel="nofollow">https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/electrify</a>