1. The tech isn't ready to deploy.
2. There are hardly any Democrat leaders left who care about or can talk to blue collar workers.
2. There are hardly any Democrat leaders left who care about or can talk to blue collar workers.
The problem is voters, not workers. US voters are significantly older and to the right of employees - either past or near retirement. Improving employment certainly does work on the margins, but in absolute terms there's a lot of people who don't care and just want to be entertained.
Problem number 3 though is the US doesn't emit that much carbon. To be part of a worldwide solution we need to sell carbon capture tech to China and India.
What makes you say this? All they have to do is grind up olivine and dump it in parts of the ocean with high vorticity like unused shores.