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If you had a chance to talk to some smart experts about CDR (carbon dioxide removal), what would you ask? What are you curious/worried/excited about in that space? Political dynamics? Tech developments? Hit me.
Hm, it appears I'm going to need a 47-hour interview.
One strong message from this call: trees, *as a means of carbon sequestration*, are bullshit. Plenty of great reasons to plant trees, to love trees, to hug trees, but carbon sequestration isn't one of them.
Oh, the other strong message from the CDR call, which ought to go without saying but rarely does: whether CDR is ultimately necessary to mop up the last 10 or 20% of emissions we can't eliminate ... the overwhelming priority right now is to reduce the emissions we can.
There's a weird phenomenon where people want to avoid the (very real) political difficulties & tradeoffs involved in reducing emissions ... so they retreat to stuff like CDR & geoengineering, as though the politics of those will be any easier!
