What is carbon capture and storage and why are environmentalists concerned?
In the race to contain the climate emergency, governments worldwide are scrambling to cut carbon emissions. From encouraging people to walk instead of drive, to planting millions of trees, the aim is to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
But some are planning to put them - yes, the actual CO2 emissions - into the ground, using a form of technology called Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). This allows us to trap up to 90 per cent of the CO2 that would normally enter the atmosphere, under our feet.
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Atlantis Viewpoint
At Atlantis, we believe this is not an effective solution for the climate emergency. It would be much easier and inexpensive to stop emitting Greenhouse Gases (GHG) by using completely clean sources of energy. An unlimited source of energy with technology we already have. Lets stop burning fossil fuels, its time to change to true clean energy.
Carbon Capture could be useful in the short term to try to clear up some of the mess we have already created, but it should not be invested in for the future as an excuse to keep creating air pollution and emissions. As we should have learned from past experiences trying to hide these problems away will only mean they will come back to haunt us again in the future.
