I'm fascinated and impressed by all kinds of technology (along with engineering and science). I'm not always excited about it. Some technology is useful, some wonderful, some not so good at this time, some maybe just shouldn't be used.

I'm actually fascinated and impressed even by technology we shouldn't be using. I mean, we absolutely shouldn't be using ICBMs with nuclear weapons. But the technology that went into both is absolutely astoundingly impressive. My jaw drops every time I see film of a Polaris missile being launched—and that's really old tech now.

When it comes to climate, I believe that—because we are so close to some very bad tipping points—we need QUICK and effective action. That's why I focus on slashing production of useless and destructive things. We need to STOP the destruction or else repairing the damage is impossible. It's like shooting people but putting all your attention on medical attention and none on preventing the shootings. That's the policy we have for firearm injuries and deaths, and that's not working out so well.

We should be smarter with gun violence AND with planetary health.

I am a fan of much clean energy tech (solar astounds me!), and—if scientists decide that some CO2 capture and even geoengineering is ultimately useful or necessary, I'll support it. But right now, most climate tech are simply elaborate money-making schemes and the plans for applying them are ineffective or (as Frederick points out) counter-productive.

Thus, carbon capture which MIGHT (I suspect not, but it's possible) play a useful role someday is currently so minimal, and slow or impossible to deploy at scale that it's only use is to persuade us to NOT take real serious and immediate steps to protect the Earth.

In other words, carbon capture—whatever the merits or flaws as a technology—is being used to continue our march to doom.

Let's use it when and if it becomes genuinely helpful. And let's take the quickest and most effective actions we can NOW, at this late date, to stave off the worst.