Cleaning Up After Big Businesses

In today's reading the text discusses management of CO2 emissions and how it will affect our climate in the future.  A common sentiment among big corporations is, "Yes we want to reduce our CO2 emissions, but now is not a good time." This hesitancy to make changes at the source of the problem means we must look for other solutions.  At an American Association for the Advancement of Science convention specialists developed a method of capturing and storing CO2 emissions before they can be introduced into the atmosphere.  CO2 is captured from smokestacks and injected into porous rocks underground.  While this should cut emissions by 25% over the next 100 years, it is an expensive process, and can only be used for a finite amount of time.  It's too bad that this expensive and ultimately short-term solution is necessary when big businesses have the tools at their disposal to significantly reduce the problem at its origin.