Organic Carbon Capture

One answer, of course, is that nature is a lot more adaptable than people, especially experts, are inclined to admit. ABC News (Au), December 27, 2019

Washington Post , December 12, 2019 reports , " And some environmentalists tout its ability to lock up carbon to combat climate change." To be sure, not all environmentalists agree, but carbon capture, in its myriad forms, is the obvious solution.  If there's too much CO2 in the atmosphere, take it out. 

Politico , December 9 .   Alternate headline: "Farmers starting to see how the Green New Deal could be the new parity--the key to new funding sources."

Alabama Farmer Looks to Cash in on Carbon Storage Associated Press Aliceville farmer Annie Dee, who runs the Dee River Ranch in Pickens County, is one of a growing number of farmers who are signed up to get paid to sequester carbon in the soil using what are being called regenerative farm techniques. Dee uses a mixture of plants such as radishes, turnips, clover, winter peas and oats as cover crops for her 4,000 acres of row crops. The cover crops grow to different depths in the soil, providing a variety of benefits. She still tinkers with the mixture based on seed prices. In the past she's used sunflowers, but she said those were too expensive this year. Dee is one of the early participants in an inc entive program run by startup Indigo Agriculture called the Terraton Initiative, which will pay farmers like her $15 per ton of carbon sequestered in the soil where she grows crops like corn, soybeans and timber and grazes cattle.

Natural History Museum , London reminds us that pearls are, in and of themselves, an interesting--as well as beautiful--form of carbon capture: By secreting layers of aragonite and conchiolin, the same substances that are in its calcium carbonate shell, the mollusc creates a material called nacre, commonly known as mother-of-pearl. The oyster diffused this iridescent coating around - and effectively entombing - the fish.