eli5: Why isn’t carbon capture used at emission sources?

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I know that there is ‘legacy carbon’ in the atmosphere that needs to get removed but why aren’t we leveraging carbon capture as part of industrial processes (e.g. at the factory’s smoke stack, for example). Or maybe we are already?

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That’s the original carbon capture idea, which later turned into direct air capture, which is just trees but tech

The problem is that governments don’t take climate change seriously and don’t implement carbon taxes that will make it financially logical for factory owners to capture their own carbon emissions

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