KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN
It’s almost too good to be true,
free basalt for farms from Undo*:
when crushed it takes in
CO2, that’s a win
and makes farmland more fertile too.
Article accessed from BBC Climate section at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg3legn80xo dated 12.09.24 which reports
'A company called *Undo is now offering basalt free to farmers and sends its own contractors to spread it on the land.
Because it captures carbon, the process is funded by carbon credits which big companies buy to offset their planet warming greenhouse gas emissions.
XinRan Liu, director of science and research with Undo, describes it as a transformative measure in the fight against climate change.
He said: "It's the most scalable technology. We have huge deposits of rock globally ready to go and we have farmlands in every single continent."
"All of that means that we could achieve billions of tons of removal on a very fast timescale for the climate.”
Some comments following the news item focused on the fact that the scheme is being financed to allow some major polluters to purchase carbon credits. Whilst understanding their indignation, the basis of a scheme that has the potential to absorb substantial quantities of Carbon dioxide, seems to me to be one that is worth celebrating. Doesn’t the planet need all the help it can get?
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