SINE

Who called this Sine’s soliloquy! ? This is important, not some stupid dream! Listen: China has planted more trees the past few years than anybody. It has much manpower and trees are the cheapest way to pull smog out of the air. They do it as they grow, and the bigger they get, the more they pull. “Carbon capture” But this takes time. And then they die, or get cut down, or forest fire. Carbon is back in the air again. A quicker and more permanent method is to make smog into rock the way planets make gas into rock as they cool. People can do this, but it's expensive. Just charge extra for airplane rides to later run machines pulling airplane exhaust out of the air and push it into the ground? Read my link in this note.

AURA

I'm with Sine on this one. The big wheels that stuff their pockets and riff about GNP all the time dreamed up "carbon credits" that just let those who might have to shell out something to adapt weasel out of facing reality. I say just yell "Stop!" If it takes a pandemic to make it happen, so be it. It sure worked for the Indians. It's either that or Chaco.