Stopping the CO2 Pipeline
Is it “carbon capture” — or property rights, cash, and Constitution capture? This is the question explored, and answered, by the alarming new documentary UNearthing the CO2 Pipeline. Produced by The John Birch Society and released on Earth Day (April 22), it warns of a man-made peril beneath the earth, one that could be coming to a town near you.
What is carbon capture (CC)? Grok AI puts it very succinctly, writing that it “is a process that traps carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from sources like power plants, industrial facilities, or directly from the air, preventing it from entering the atmosphere. The captured CO2 is then stored underground, used in industrial processes, or converted into products.” The pretext for it is combating “global warming,” “climate change,” “global climate disruption,” or whatever the nom du jour will be when this essay is published. Of course, CO2 — regularly called “carbon,” which is like calling water “hydrogen” — is implicated in this repent-the-end-is-nigh, doomsayer scenario. Never mind that botanists pump the gas into their greenhouses because it facilitates plant growth. (Crop yields rise notably along with CO2 levels.) Never mind that astrobiologist Jack O’Malley-James predicted in 2013 that life on Earth would end due to too little CO2 (albeit in a billion years). Never mind that Bjørn Lomborg of the Copenhagen Consensus Center has predicted that lowering Earth’s temperature one-third of one degree by this century’s end would cost $100 trillion (which still may be lower than our national debt in 2100). Never mind that even the liberal New York Times admitted in 2016, reporting on a Lancet study, that “cold weather is responsible, directly or indirectly, for 17 times as many deaths as hot weather.” And never mind that some scientists believe another ice age is approaching. There’s carbon and cash to capture.
The carbon-capture pipeline (CCP) is a massive undertaking, too. The Department of Energy says 96,000 miles of CCP in the United States will be required to help meet Net Zero goals. Farmers in the Great Plains are even now battling a proposed $8.9 billion, 2,100-mile project. Even more significantly, it is setting property-rights precedents that, turning the “man’s home is his castle” principle on its head, could affect Americans coast to coast and from here to eternity.
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