United Nations: We'll Need Carbon Removal

Okay, from Bloomberg, the UN released a statement a few weeks ago about carbon removal.

And we haven't talked about carbon removal in a while, but of course, this is the idea that we're probably going to need to remove the excess carbon from the air If we want to keep global temperatures down, we're already sort of losing the fight for climate change.

The UN says we are looking to blow past the 1.5 degrees Celsius target that we set and we were trying to avoid.

And they say that carbon removal is going to be necessary to keep things under control.

And they want to know who's going to pay for it.

Okay.

Because this is a potentially very expensive venture.

You know, it's not like electric vehicles where it sort of turns out to be a win-win for everybody because you and I know electric vehicles are just superior in almost every way and they are getting to be cheaper.

The operating costs are certainly cheaper.

And once we switch to completely electric cars, our air is going to be so much cleaner.

So, you know, it's a win-win to switch to electric vehicles and the economics of it makes sense that, you know, it's going to happen regardless of government policy.

It's just, you know, cheaper and better, clean energy in general.

But they say that carbon removal may not have the same kind of win-win situation, that it could just be a very, very expensive thing.

that we need to do, but we're going to need to do it.

So the simplest and easiest way is to plant more trees.

Trees grow and they suck carbon out of the air and they store it in the tree.

The holy grail of this would be direct air capture.

And there are machines that exist that do this, but so far they've only been run at a very small scale.

And it's seemingly just too expensive and too slow to do this.

But you know what's really expensive is climate change.

We're finding that.

My insurance

company, they're aware of

that.

They should have their own carbon suckers out there.