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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;t eliminate ... the overwhelming priority right now is to reduce the emissions we can.

There& #39;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!