The politics of carbon capture are all but guaranteed to be a much bigger headache than the politics of cutting emissions. There's a 5 trillion ton surplus of C

The politics of carbon capture are all but guaranteed to be a much bigger headache than the politics of cutting emissions. There's a 5 trillion ton surplus of CO2 in the atmosphere and it keeps getting bigger. We might be able to turn some CO2 into useful materials, but five trillion tons? For scale, that's 50000 times the weight of all the buildings in Manhattan: https://www.thrillist.com/culture/how-much-does-manhattan-weigh https://www.thrillist.com/culture/how-much-does-manhattan-we...