I don't think it's fair to take that tone against climate activists without considering the larger context of the issues here. We have been lied to for decades

I don't think it's fair to take that tone against climate activists without considering the larger context of the issues here. We have been lied to for decades by the industry and it's lobbyists. They knew damn well what greenhouse gasses were going to do to our world back in the fucking 70's, just like tobacco companies knew what their products would do to people's lungs, just like they knew what lead would do to people and still put it in gas, pipes, and fucking paint. Even now many are still clinging to the bullshit "check your energy impact" garbage, shaming individual consumers for the fact that they knowingly are setting the planet on a course to large-scale ecological disaster and have been since before most of us were born. It's also worth considering that carbon capture is not a bulletproof solution without costs. The machines themselves are quite large if you want to capture at a scale sufficient to actually offset climate change, and if people hate the look of windmills, oh just wait till they get a look at carbon capture hardware. I've also not yet seen a carbon capture application for motor vehicles, industrial or otherwise (though I would love that). And, carbon capture does not assist us at all in getting off of oil in general, which is a finite resource that we only have so much of and so we really need to figure out different things for that. Not burning oil and it's byproducts saves a hell of a lot of oil for plastics, which we also need. It is mostly an engineering problem. It's also a lying bastard corporation problem. It's also a complete failure on the part of regulatory structures to take on the problem, and political meekness from every standing government on the face of the earth. It's a problem that ties directly into many systemic failures of our society; the over-centering of profit above any and all other considerations, including our survival. It's a loaded issue.