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The great carbon reversal

By Evan Anderson

How pulling carbon can save our world, and how to do it

In this great summer of our discontent, one factor has ruled perhaps beyond all others in the media cycle: climate change. Regular readers will notice that we have now pushed through a number of major aspects of the current and coming climate battle in our reports this year. First, back in February, I outlined ways in which we can reduce our carbon footprint faster than we think.

In early August, Berit Anderson took us on a wild ride in A Near-Term Climate Cataclysm? highlighting the urgency of the issue and making clear  that we need to aim for getting back to atmospheric carbon levels of around 300 ppm, a point emphasized this summer by all the wildfires, flooding, heat waves, and Hurricane Ida.

The following week we had Getting to Zero, wherein I described the many budding technologies that will help us take our annual emissions (as a globe) from their current roar to the neutral emissions we'll need to stop making the problem worse.

But "stop failing" only goes so far, both for the planet and for our human inspiration to act. With worsening weather patterns, dangerously shifting ocean currents, and the ongoing burning of our forests and melting of ice caps, we need to actively make things better as well, starting yesterday.