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Pull a gazilion tons of carbon out of the atmosphere, crystallise it into gigantic diamond shards, and drop them from the stratosphere onto the 95th percentile by wealth in each country.
Hate to be a killjoy but C02 is only one greenhouse gas and not even the worst one.
Per kilo, sure. But in terms of overall impact, I'll lay odds that reducing the CO2 level down to preindustrial levels would be more effective than reducing any other pollutant.
Methane would be more effective than C02. Methane is the elephant in the room no one talks about