That's right. Yes. But to the point about the public-private designation, so about this issue, we read

a left defensive carbon dioxide removal by Christian Parenti, and he begins with a quote from Machiavelli.

Huh. Experience has shown that only princes and republics that have their own army make great progress

while mercenary armies do nothing but her so that i could see come to think of it

arm zealers should probably not be in charge of uh clean energy transition if they were to be

that's i think that's a not unlikely scenario. If we have

the current sort of neoliberal marketized transition model that liberals liberals liberals are trying

to push, I think you could see more of that. But we want public investment.

Well, they get into this in the article,

but the people in charge of it right now

are just big oil employees,

because that's where all the capital is,

is with energy companies.

So to, you know, shore up their optics,

they're the ones actually funding all of

these suck carbon out of the air vacuums. But then it's all to justify another opening of a

oil well in the Pacific that will unleash a kaiju onto the unsuspecting Asian continent.

Yeah, but the market has kind of matured for carbon capture technology.

Like at first it was, you know, very speculative.

It's been around for a while.

So carbon capture was also a way to increase oil production and make it more efficient.

We should say what carbon capture is.

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