Remember it takes at least as much energy to pull the carbon back from the oxygen as how much was released when the carbon was burned and bonded with the oxygen. And because of reasons it's more like 3 to 4 times as much and because humans aren't that clever it's probably closer to 10 times as much.

This means we have to pay the bill to put back all of the carbon from fossil fuels we've been burning for the past 100 years. This is an amount of money we can't even begin to fathom. And because we are slow at it, we also get taxed on top of that as climate change leads to economic loss in a variety of interesting ways.

There are no shortcuts, there are no quick fixes. We need to stop burning fossil fuels right now and start fixing shit. Now we have had a pause in the growth of fossil fuel burning, but the rate is still insanely high and at peak levels. Even though the growth has stopped, it hasn't shrunk either. And it's very possible the dip was only due to the impact of covid and for 2024 onwards it will start growing again.