Sparks: Carbon capture is a fig leaf for fossil fuel expansion | Letters
Democratic peoples often prefer a gentle, technological illusion that preserves their habits of consumption to the painful exercise of a liberty that would require them to change their way of life.
When the treasury is emptied for a promise of air while the smokestacks remain standing, I ask how long the architects of this ruin will be permitted to call their own enrichment a public virtue.
If we spend the people's gold to bury the smoke and yet keep the fire burning, we are but a house divided against its own purpose, laboring to hide the very fruit we continue to sow.
The cash-value of this mechanical hope lies not in the carbon it traps beneath the earth, but in the permission it grants the industrialist to wake up on Tuesday morning and change absolutely nothing.
Things that are truly tiresome: a vast sum of gold spent on a machine that mimics the breathing of a forest while the real trees are being cut down to make room for it.
It is a triumph of modern reason to propose that we must subsidize the extraction of more poison simply to fund the very expensive jars in which we intend to keep it.
Nature seeks only the whole, yet you spend the empire's wealth trying to negotiate with the smoke of yesterday while the sun sets on a world that does not care for your clever accounting.
Industry has finally achieved the ultimate height of artifice by creating a solution that is significantly more expensive than the problem it was designed to ignore.
They sat in the drawing room debating the cost of the new filtration valves while, outside the window, the old cherry orchard was turning gray from the heat of the very mills they own.
A physician who treats a fever by cooling the thermometer while the infection spreads unchecked is no different from a statesman who captures a fraction of the soot while the furnace roars on.
This policy is described as an environmental necessity, but it functions as a masterstroke of the merchant class to ensure that the public pays for the privilege of allowing the monopoly to survive.
To build a colossal machine to catch a dispersed waste when the primary field can be harvested directly from the sun is not progress, but a deliberate strangulation of the radiant future.
The claim is that we are too dependent on the old fires to change, a circular logic that first denies us the alternative and then cites our lack of choice as the reason to invest in failure.
You seek to trap the infinite breath of the world in a tiny box of iron and stone, but truth is a fire that cannot be buried by the laws of men or the gold of princes.
"Net zero via carbon management" is a phrase where the noun 'management' is employed specifically to ensure that the verb 'stop' never has to be conjugated in the present tense.
A man who sets his house on fire and then expects the neighbors to pay for a very small fan to blow the smoke back down the chimney is what we call a visionary industrialist.