Carbon removal is not a one-click solution, as eager as the complacent consumers of the North are to believe in mirages of deliverance. Since writing the article, though, Táíwò — whose vital book Reconsidering Reparations will be published in December — has been thinking more and more about carbon removal. “It’s just so clear to me that carbon removal is squarely the kind of thing that fits into the reparations framework. Large-scale carbon removal “could be necessary,” Cullenward says, especially if managed, as Robinson imagines, as a public good. In those models, carbon removal is still needed at the gigaton scale, but of course slower progress could mean more need for removal.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 02, 2021 05:19 UTC