I grew up being taught El Nino isn’t a big deal and it’s just the seasons going through their normal cycle. But with Super El Nino, I finally bothered to read about climate change, and now it’s a rabbit hole I can’t get out of. I calculated my own personal carbon footprint, and I feel disgusted with myself :(
I looked up all the ways to decrease my own footprint- but now I learned that’s not enough, we also need to capture and lockup all the extra carbon that’s in the air now too.
I read about all the ways to do that, and I learned about biochar and it’s relatively the quickest way we have right now that locks carbon up for at least a century if done right.
So I thought about ways to make biochar that’s actually impactful, and of course it has to be a collective action not just the individual.
Now I’m thinking, why don’t cities adopt a biochar bin for their residents just like Stockholm? Is this something I can advocate for my own community?
Biochar is a totally valid way to fix carbon, yeah. There’s not enough trees in cities to make a dent, but if you think bigger, there’s potential.
However, nobody wants to personally pay for that, so there’s no way to employ people doing it. It’s kind of the same answer to every climate change inaction question.
It’s not even a money problem. In whatever non-market economy, there still wouldn’t be the will to divert resources to it, because 90% of people just don’t care that much.