Carbon Dioxide
The industrial revolution was the starting point of an ongoing increase in carbon emissions, which inevitably leads to global warming. To avoid a major climate catastrophe, we need to (a) drastically reduce carbon emissions and (b) actively remove carbon from the atmosphere. Will humans succeed in adopting new behaviors and developing life-saving technologies in time?
To keep below two degrees, we’ll need to dramatically reduce current emissions and simultaneously remove 10-15 gigatons of CO2/yr from the atmosphere by 2050. Read on for what that means, why, and how we might do it.
Ryan Orbuch
Ryan Orbuch, 2020
Gilbert E. Metcalf
Brookings Institution, 2019
CO2 could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe.
Elizabeth Kolbert
The New Yorker, 2017
Article
The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention.
Helena Bottemiller Evich
Politico Magazine, 2017
Article
Vast bioenergy plantations could suck up carbon and stave off climate change. They would also radically reshape the planet.
Julia Rosen
Science, 2018
Abby Rabinowitz et al.
Wired, 2017
Article
Good Idea in Theory, Failing in Practice
Jeffrey Ball
Foreign Affairs, 2018
Emissions will keep declining, but likely not enough for the United States to meet 2025 goal
Warren Cornwall
Science, 2017
