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      "The challenge is simple enough for a 4th-grader to understand: The same fossil fuels that built the modern world are now destroying it."  Bill Weir (1967-  )

                                                                 Ecologist's Opinion - September 24, 2022

CO2 PIPELINES ARE MEANT TO KEEP FOSSIL FUELS BURNING

   Oh, boy.  At first blush, the idea of CO2 pipelines sounded great.  Yes, let’s get rid of all that CO2 that’s so desperately threatening and causing great harm to our environment.  Let’s take it somewhere we can bury it safely and for good, keeping it out of the atmosphere.

   But when one looks more closely, it’s a disaster waiting to happen… a disaster promulgated and supported by the same criminals who have gotten us into this fix… Big Oil.

   First, let’s just talk about safety.  CO2 is heavier than air.  It would essentially follow flood routes, pouring into lower ground areas.  And it’s dangerous.  Whenever a pipeline ruptures (and there is no pipeline that has never ruptured), the local population will need emergency services, evacuation plans, disaster mitigation & the costs of all that will be high.

   In 2020, one Mississippi town had to be evacuated and 45 people were hospitalized by a CO2 pipeline rupture.

   The general concept of carbon sequestration involves capturing and removing carbon dioxide from the emission stack of an industrial facility, such as an ethanol refinery.  So, IF an effective means can be developed (which it hasn’t been) to capture all that carbon coming from burning fossil fuels, it will be carried away via these pipelines and voila! it will be just fine to keep on burning those fossil fuels.

   And we’ll just keep on making more CO2 and sending it off along those pipelines that statistically leak every 78 miles.

   Let’s not even get into the discussion about eminent domain and whether Big Oil might have any influence there.  You think?  A judge’s order near Sioux City, Iowa has already gone against local landowners.

   NO.  CO2 pipelines, which sounded so good at first, are just another red herring for the fossil fuel industry to keep doing what it does, burn and burn the planet into destruction.

   Renewable energy remains our only salvation.  Build more windmills.  More solar.  Develop green hydrogen.  Tap geothermal energy.

   Do not allow the obscene profits of Big Oil to be spent perpetuating its existence.

   We're all for removing carbon from the air.  But removing it from smokestacks? 

   No, remove the smokestacks.

   

   "Everywhere I look there are opportunities to be addressing climate change and everywhere I look we are not doing it."        Bill Nye

                          TOGETHER IN A CLOSET                                                                 by the Ecologist

Imagine that a whole big bunch of us is in a closet together.  We can make it a really big closet, but it’s a closet.   No windows and only one door.  And if we open the door, everyone dies.  So we have to stick it out and survive until tomorrow in this closet together.  We’ll always have enough air, but if we allow that guy over there to light his cigar the air will smell like cigar smoke.  For a long time.  With just that one cigar.  We're gonna have to make it past tomorrow.

But no one is willing to tell him to cut it out.  He smokes one after another and now the air is getting really bad because of it.  Someone needs to tell him to stop.  There are actually some folks being sickened by the smoke.  It looks like it’s going to have to come to the point that a group of us get together and make him stop.

That’s what Extinction Rebellion  is all about, that’s why they exist today.         Greenpeace  exists for the same reason.  Whiners and deniers say teen Greta Thunberg hasn’t offered one concrete idea about what we should do, or how we should do it.  Neither has X Rebellion or Greenpeace.  They’re all just trying to get us to STOP what we’re doing and how we’re doing it.

Like that group of us who, sooner or later, is going to go make that guy stop lighting his cigars inside our closet.

So, for yourself, what’s it going to be?  Sooner?  Or later?

"Now is the time for each and everyone of us to decide which side of history we are on." Extinction Rebellion, 4/28/19

So for you, what’s it going to be?  And when?   



"We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow."  Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu