06/20/2017
CLIMATE ¢HANGE
Editorial by Kevin Ryan
The company that created this carbon capturing plant in Switzerland, Climeworks, says it will take 250,000 of these facilities, at $4.5 million a piece, to reduce global CO2 by just 1%. That would cost $1.125 TRILLION dollars.
Yet, the same CO2 reduction could be achieved by planting less than $2 billion worth of trees.
This is why people don't trust our policymakers on global warming. Instead of taking the easiest or cheapest or least disruptive route to addressing it, we're pushed toward the costliest solutions. Corporatists and politicians are, plain and simply, looking at climate change as a cash cow and a way to further fleece taxpayers.
SOURCES: https://www.livescience.com/59308-facility-captures-carbon-dioxide-from-atmosphere.html
http://www.energylivenews.com/2015/10/22/swiss-co2-capture-plant-to-help-grow-vegetables/