>>13445969Basically this. The problem is our air and our environment suffer from "the tragedy of the commons". Capitalism cannot solve this issue which is why we need someone with military and legal force to enforces these rules. A carbon capture credit system would be the most ideal imo. This would make technologies like carbon scrubbing profitable and viable. I worked for sulfur emissions and so I think if politicians really force it we will work for CO2 now that we have the technology to mitigate it.
Also in agriculture we have to switch to regenerative means. Currently carbon is being released from soil due to tillage and use of chemical fertilizers. Farmlands are grasslands, and grasslands only exist when large ungulates munch on the grass and shit on it. That is how grassland soils are the most fertile. We need to establish a system of cover cropping and pasture grazing on farmland instead of tilling and only planting basedbeans and corn with massive amounts of fertilizer to compensate for the shitty practice. That's the reason the american dust bowl occurred, due to depleting the soils of organic matter and tillage.
Grasslands have the ability to sequester more carbon than forests since the soil continually builds on itself and is buried by new grass. Converting lots of boreal forests into grassland with megafauna thriving would sequester more carbon. Healthy grasslands also have better water infiltration and are more resistant to drought and fires. If we can do that for north america and eurasia in russia that would be a big carbon sink (so long as we squester the trees we cut down)
Seaweed farming in my mind is the future of agriculture and carbon sequestration. By farming seaweed we capture carbon and we can use that for fertilizer. If we make seaweed farms in strategic locations based on soil erosion, we can recapture the nutrients lost from soil and put them back onto farm land.