In the Netherlands this week, a fertilizer company began injecting captured carbon dioxide beneath the North Sea floor — a genuine feat of engineering that also, by the arithmetic of climate science, reveals how vast the distance remains between human ambition and planetary necessity. The world now operates 77 carbon capture facilities storing 64 million tons of CO2 annually, yet the International Energy Agency's 2050 targets demand 119 times that output, a multiplication that no current trajectory supports. Humanity has built a proof of concept; what it has not built is the will, the economic