Sometimes realisation comes in a blinding flash. Blurred outlines snap into shape and suddenly it all makes sense. Underneath such revelations is typically a much slower-dawning process. Doubts at the back of the mind grow. The sense of confusion that things cannot be made to fit together increases until something clicks. Or perhaps snaps.
Collectively we three authors of this article must have spent more than 80 years thinking about climate change. Why has it taken us so long to speak out about the obvious dangers of the concept of net zero? In our defence, the premise of net zero is deceptively simple – and we admit that it deceived us.
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2 Is Suddenly a Carbon Offset Option
Canada’s largest company is funding machines that suck CO
2 from the atmosphere to offset its own emissions
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The online retail platform Shopify, Canada’s most valuable company, yesterday inked a deal to suck out of the atmosphere 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide and store it permanently underground.
Shopify Inc.’s agreement is the largest publicly announced corporate purchase of direct air capture, or DAC, for carbon offsets, according to Carbon Engineering, a Canadian firm seeking to commercialize the nascent climate-change-fighting technology.
Carbon Engineering promised Shopify it would store the e-commerce company’s carbon offsets roughly equivalent to the emissions from 132 tanker trucks’ worth of gasoline in a DAC facility it expects to bring online in 2024.