Comment Re:Does not seem very scalable (Score 1) 200
Obviously they will get money, because at this stage (bargaining) too many people are still ready to believe carbon-capture is going to work just fine.
Carbon offset can work but we need to rethink how we do it. Something like this might be the solution. If we said for every ton of carbon you take from the ground you have to put a ton back, then we could take out valuable carbon like oil and rebury less valuable carbon like unsorted used plastic bottles.
There is lots of low value carbon that could be buried instead of burned/recycled to compensate for the carbon we take out out of the ground.
If buried plastic takes 1000 years to decompose then every ton of plastic taken to a landfill is a ton of sequestered carbon.