Carbon capture is like burning witches. In the 15th to 17th centuries, the elite in Europe and the United States believed that "bad people negatively affect the climate and weather." People demanded that something—anything—be done about the famine and crop failure. There must be consequences, facts be damned, so inconvenient women on the fringes of society were labeled "witches" and burned at the stake in droves. Of course, you and I, with the benefit of hindsight and a decent education, know that burning witches had no effect on the weather. It was cruel and fruitless and its only benefit was to make people feel good. At least something was being done. Fast forward to 2023, and it appears that the United States has sold itself into a net-zero fantasy. Legions of celebrities, influencers and politicians are clamoring for a magic turnkey solution to climate change. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) now plans to unilaterally mandate carbon capture for all natural gas and coal-fired power plants—an act of bureaucratic overreach that will force the shutdown of many of our most reliable electricity generators because of its exorbitant costs. The modern elite turn their noses up at the legions of the unenlightened, with their gas-guzzling trucks and single-use plastics, which are surely the cause of all our problems. If we could just get rid of all that CO2, climate change would be solved, right? But net-zero is just as pointless – and just as bad – as the bogus witch trials of the Middle Ages. (FROM THE DAILY CALLER)