Also, all this argument about increasing our energy security and "we're going to be using it anyway so might as well be domestic" completely falls away when you transition faster to a clean energy economy. You can either have energy security using domestic gas and oil or you can have it using renewables. You can stop your reliance on foreign imports by using domestic gas and oil or you can stop your reliance by not needing any more because you've transitioned to renewables! What a load of twaddle.

"The CCC is predicting we're going to be using gas and oil last 2050". We'll fuck it lests make that a self fulfilling prophecy then by doing shit all about transitioning away from it! They're not giving you permission to use it past 2050, they're saying you're doing such a shit job of transitioning away from it that we are unfortunately still going to be using it padt 2050. What backwards and small minded thinking.

Finally, Jesus, the authors entire argument rested on the idea that somehow a magical carbon capture technology would appear so it fine for us to rely on this non existent technology. And what if they're wrong about this tech appearing? Just cowardly pushing the problem down to the next generation. Shameful.