Maybe USA should also do it, USA had close to 50% of lands covered with forests in late 1600s which is now only close to 20% it increased by 0.03%in the last decade. That would go a long way toward a net zero target.
Or they can buy into big agri and big pharma’s bullshit and keep giving them billions in subsidy to work on something that clearly is failing now as an option…
Your second one does not make sense in this context though. Oil companies are the ones pushing carbon capture and sequestration. The US did buy into that bullshit and gave the oil companies billions to work on it. Out of the dozen projects, not one of them was workable. I think only one of them even got past the planning stage because the cost and the amount of carbon sequestered was so bad most of them gave up.
Anyway if you go down this road, you’d realise some projects talk sense, but some funding has gone to non sense projects that effectively just say like “oh farming is growing plants, plants absorb CO2, we are naturally a carbon sink, daddy give me money”
Maybe USA should also do it, USA had close to 50% of lands covered with forests in late 1600s which is now only close to 20% it increased by 0.03%in the last decade. That would go a long way toward a net zero target.
Or they can buy into big agri and big pharma’s bullshit and keep giving them billions in subsidy to work on something that clearly is failing now as an option…
I agree with your first paragraph.
Your second one does not make sense in this context though. Oil companies are the ones pushing carbon capture and sequestration. The US did buy into that bullshit and gave the oil companies billions to work on it. Out of the dozen projects, not one of them was workable. I think only one of them even got past the planning stage because the cost and the amount of carbon sequestered was so bad most of them gave up.
You’re right oil and gas companies have more funding for CCS but it’s not like agri has 0 funding, they have also gotten single digit billions so far. UCS https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/agricultural-practices-and-carbon-sequestration-fact-sheet
World economic forum https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/08/how-carbon-smart-farming-tackles-climate-change/
Nature.com https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-018-0108-y
Other less known sources https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-agricultural-sector-capture-co2.html
https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-adding-rock-dust-to-soil-can-help-get-carbon-into-the-ground
Anyway if you go down this road, you’d realise some projects talk sense, but some funding has gone to non sense projects that effectively just say like “oh farming is growing plants, plants absorb CO2, we are naturally a carbon sink, daddy give me money”