The problem, as noted early in the article, is economic. Although some carbon-capture technologies exist, few if any come remotely close to breakeven when all costs are factored in. And it's unclear that taxpayers would be willing to see significant increases in personal tax rates in order to fund a semi-solution because the problem of what to do with the CO2 remains. Pumping it into reservoirs deep underground remains fanciful at best, and there are few other alternatives. The packaged food industry simply doesn't need even a fraction of the CO2 a full-scale OECD carbon-capture program would create.

For now, therefore, more research is required in order to see if there can be any feasible capture-and-store technologies that can help remove CO2 from the atmosphere.