[scratcheee]

One potential value of CC today is as a final and most flexible solution. Even with the limited and experimental technology of today, which is obviously economically insane, we have a way (with enough money) to make anything carbon neutral. The value is not that we actually do that (humanity cannot afford it, in general), but instead to give us the number to beat, the correct carbon tax, the absolute cost of failing to decarbonise.

It’s easier to justify improved efficiency when the cost of spilling carbon is a big number of dollars rather than a tiny slither of a global problem.

That said, I do agree investment should be limited, it’s obviously only going to be the “best” solution in the rare circumstance that there is no good solution.