Not that this is a bad thought, it’s great and we should do that, but it’s not enough. We essentially burned the growth of millions of years of broken down stuff as oil, and that carbon went into the atmosphere. We need to retrieve millions of years of organic growth and put it back into the ground.

I’ve seen ideas of seaweed farms with the purpose of growing them and then sinking them in the ocean depths to get them out of the cycle. I suspect something would learn to live off them though.

If we had a way to make oil from the carbon in the air directly plus an energy input, and then a way to pump that back where we got it is what we need. Maybe there could be a crop that makes this conversion somehow. Like maybe grow something to make ethanol and then convert that. Labor and energy intensive but that’s what it will take since we just used all the energy.

There is already short term vs long term capital gains tax, but it’s only one year. Maybe they could tweak that a bit

Just mow the leaves a few times. It’s supposed to be good for the soil.