Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion | George Monbiot

We now face, on all fronts, a war not just against the living planet and the common good, but against material reality.

The Christian rapture and the tech rapture are essentially the same belief.

But while it is easy to point to the counter-qualified, science-denying fanatics Donald Trump is appointing to high office, the war against reality is everywhere.

With rises in temperature, the carbon sequestration you’ve paid for can simply evaporate.

There’s likely to be a massive outgassing of carbon from soils as a direct result of continued heating.

The only form of organic carbon that might last this long though only under certain conditions is added biochar.