I'm amazed at the number of people in this thread who are annoyed that someone would insert mention of a carbon capture initiative into an unrelated discussion. The author is clearly tired of answering the same question, as stated in the first tweet, and is desperately trying to get people to think more critically about the climate crisis that is currently causing the sixth mass extinction event in the history of the planet.
Being annoyed that someone "duped" you into reading about the climate crisis is incredibly frustrating to activists because it's SO important to be thinking about and working on, and yet getting folks to put energy into even considering climate crisis is like pulling teeth.
I wonder if any of the folks complaining about the structure of the tweets has stopped to think about why the author feels compelled to "trick" us into reading about carbon capture.
The simple fact of the matter is that too many people are either resigned to a Hobbesian future of resource wars, or profiting too much from the status quo to go beyond a perfunctory level of concern.
$44bn of real-world cash was just spent on Twitter, and HN users alone have generated tens of thousands of comments on the matter.
How many climate tech related stories will have the same level of interest?
To add another perspective (albeit with politics rather than climate change):
I worked in political communications for a while. Part of the reason it was so toxic to my mental health and I burnt out was that it was nearly impossible to avoid politics online even in completely unrelated spaces. So I'd work 40 hours trying to improve the situation, log in to discuss stupid media/fan shit, and have to wade through a bunch of stuff that reminded me how little difference I was making, stuff assuming I wasn't involved/listening, etc. It was INFURIATING. Yes, I had the option to not go online, but I'm a nerd living in a small city. There isn't enough people here that share my interests to go completely offline.
Staying on topic helps people who are already involved in important causes to step away and preserve their mental health, which in turn makes them more effective.
Being annoyed that someone "duped" you into reading about the climate crisis is incredibly frustrating to activists because it's SO important to be thinking about and working on, and yet getting folks to put energy into even considering climate crisis is like pulling teeth.
I wonder if any of the folks complaining about the structure of the tweets has stopped to think about why the author feels compelled to "trick" us into reading about carbon capture.