MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical

She planted a garden.

I was thinking about that the other day, how our beautiful trees, flowers, and bushes draw a few minerals from the soil, but are really mainly knitted together from the components of water and CO2.

Yes, yes, I know, planting more trees won't do much about the greenhouse gas problem at scale, but the only thing that will are the three P's: powerdown, permaculture, population control. I do not expect industry to solve the problem industry created in a way that doesn't create more problems.

but it's not one "industry" that has to change their mind, this'd create a whole new secondary industry that is able to profit from negative externalities made by the former.

capitalism got us into this mess, but it's also the only thing powerful enough to get us out.

if we can get tech that allows us to make an economic case for reducing atmospheric CO2, it would be far more robust than relying on government regulation and/or unpopular moral appeals that ask people to sacrifice.