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      An employee poses with a pipe used to carry liquid CO2

      Watchdog Group Launches Counter Attack on 'Dangerous Carbon Capture Hype'

      "Carbon capture and storage is a lifeline for the fossil fuel industry and a dangerous distraction from the pressing need to move off oil and gas," said one advocate.

      Julia Conley
      May 15, 2023

      The national climate watchdog group Food & Water Watch on Monday unveiled a new interactive multimedia resource where users can learn more about "false narratives" regarding carbon capture and storage, an unproven technology pushed by fossil fuel companies eager to avoid what scientists and energy experts say is the actual solution to the climate emergency: Ending the burning of coal, gas, and oil to bring down carbon emissions.

      Visitors to the group's new "resource hub" first encounter a title card reading, "The Carbon Capture Solution" before the last word is crossed out and replaced with "Scam."

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      Excavators pile coal at Lianyungang Port on July 29, 2022 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China.

      Why We Can't Just Do It: The Truth About Our Failure to Curb Carbon Emissions

      We're at a crisis point. A sacrifice is needed and only a sacred cow will do. But we know the problem with sacred cows.

      Richard Heinberg
      Mar 22, 2023

      We all know what needs to be done: reduce carbon emissions. But so far, we members of global humanity just haven't been able to turn the tide. The latest IPCC report documents that carbon emissions are still increasing, despite all the promises and efforts of the past few decades. The report tells us there's only a narrow (and rapidly shrinking) pathway to averting climate catastrophe. That path requires us to cut emissions 50 percent by 2030, and to reach net zero emissions by 2050. So far, we're going in the opposite direction.

      Why is this so hard? Because it would require sacrifice. Why would it require sacrifice? Let's walk through the logic:

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      Cows at seen at a dairy farm

      Alliance of 60+ Groups Demands Farm Bill That Rejects False Climate Solutions

      "There's no way around it—we have to actually cut fossil fuel emissions," said Food & Water Watch.

      Julia Conley
      Mar 16, 2023

      Dozens of climate action, Indigenous rights, and public interest groups on Thursday announced an alliance that plans to engage with lawmakers ahead of this year's congressional debate on the Farm Bill, calling on them to pass legislation that rejects carbon offsets, carbon markets, and other policies that perpetuate a planet-heating agricultural system.

      Food & Water Watch convened more than 60 groups including the Farmworker Advocacy Network, the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), all of whom have been disturbed in recent months by the passage of "at least three pieces of legislation that promote carbon offsets and dirty energy, propping up corporate ag interests and factory farming."

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