Excellent post Grant. As you very properly stated, responsibly scaling CDR is an "all-hands-on-deck effort". We truly need ALL hands, not just scientists and engineers. We need geologists, attorneys, insurance professionals, journalists, farmers, fishermen/fisherwomen, data analysts, city planners, teachers, trades, accountants, insurance brokers, truck drivers, social scientists, investors, and everyone in between. We need individuals of all socioeconomic backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and genders. Everyone has something to contribute, big or small!
In addition to giving talks at schools, consider giving a talk to your local rotary club or industry group or your local CCL chapter or any other environmental group. We need to help people understand that carbon removal is 1) not in any way an alternative to decarbonization, and 2) an absolute necessity, and 3) the ONLY way we can ever aspire to actually FIXING our climate mess by cleaning up the giant carbon spill in the sky that we created.
Shameless plug: If you are reading this and you live on the West Coast, please consider joining PacCLEAN.org in addition to Open Air.
Thanks for your nice sharing! Very nice article and recommendations! Especially the links or resources platforms you mentioned in this article are all valuable resources! It's very helpful for students who are planning to work for CDR or carbon related fields, especially for seeing the view out of academic box. I am a PhD student working for integrating CCS/CCU/DAC processes and focusing on prospective assessment TEA & LCA for emerging technologies. I have read your academic article a lot. Now I am glad to keep tracking your insights/voices updating, thanks a lot!
Thank you Grant. I sent this to my daughter. I'm doing 1,2,4,6, and 7. One thought and happy to receive push back, is that efforts to limit the price per tonne is not necessarily great for the industry. As demand for oil and gas increased, the industry became what it is today unfortunately. To compete with that and to reverse the fossil pollution process, perhaps we need to lightly embrace this dynamic. Not become magnates or anything, just think a little bit more about ways that industry participants could thrive to attract better visibility?
Grant is absolutely right that "delivering lectures on CDR to primary and secondary school science classes is another valuable communication opportunity." I talk to my junior and senior high students about climate action whenever I get one of those day-after-exam classes. Usually I give them a choice between reviewing exam questions or talk about climate. They always go for climate.
The few times we talked about CDR, I've been amazed by young peoples ability to understand the basic science and the reasons behind carbon removal. And when we are able to go pass the "plant-more-trees" ideation stage, I've often blown away by the kind of solutions students could dream of after only 20 minutes of discussion.
I often think, these students are between 13-18 now, by the end of the decade, they will be young adults. We really will need them to have the skills to participate in scaling the low-carbon economy, or at the least, have the knowledge and correct understanding of carbon removal (and climate tech more broadly) to support well-intended endeavours in and around their communities.
Excellent post Grant. As you very properly stated, responsibly scaling CDR is an "all-hands-on-deck effort". We truly need ALL hands, not just scientists and engineers. We need geologists, attorneys, insurance professionals, journalists, farmers, fishermen/fisherwomen, data analysts, city planners, teachers, trades, accountants, insurance brokers, truck drivers, social scientists, investors, and everyone in between. We need individuals of all socioeconomic backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and genders. Everyone has something to contribute, big or small!
Couldn't agree more!!
Thanks for the great post, Grant!
In addition to giving talks at schools, consider giving a talk to your local rotary club or industry group or your local CCL chapter or any other environmental group. We need to help people understand that carbon removal is 1) not in any way an alternative to decarbonization, and 2) an absolute necessity, and 3) the ONLY way we can ever aspire to actually FIXING our climate mess by cleaning up the giant carbon spill in the sky that we created.
Shameless plug: If you are reading this and you live on the West Coast, please consider joining PacCLEAN.org in addition to Open Air.
Thanks for your nice sharing! Very nice article and recommendations! Especially the links or resources platforms you mentioned in this article are all valuable resources! It's very helpful for students who are planning to work for CDR or carbon related fields, especially for seeing the view out of academic box. I am a PhD student working for integrating CCS/CCU/DAC processes and focusing on prospective assessment TEA & LCA for emerging technologies. I have read your academic article a lot. Now I am glad to keep tracking your insights/voices updating, thanks a lot!
Amazing, thanks for reading and keep up the great work!
Thank you Grant. I sent this to my daughter. I'm doing 1,2,4,6, and 7. One thought and happy to receive push back, is that efforts to limit the price per tonne is not necessarily great for the industry. As demand for oil and gas increased, the industry became what it is today unfortunately. To compete with that and to reverse the fossil pollution process, perhaps we need to lightly embrace this dynamic. Not become magnates or anything, just think a little bit more about ways that industry participants could thrive to attract better visibility?
Grant is absolutely right that "delivering lectures on CDR to primary and secondary school science classes is another valuable communication opportunity." I talk to my junior and senior high students about climate action whenever I get one of those day-after-exam classes. Usually I give them a choice between reviewing exam questions or talk about climate. They always go for climate.
The few times we talked about CDR, I've been amazed by young peoples ability to understand the basic science and the reasons behind carbon removal. And when we are able to go pass the "plant-more-trees" ideation stage, I've often blown away by the kind of solutions students could dream of after only 20 minutes of discussion.
I often think, these students are between 13-18 now, by the end of the decade, they will be young adults. We really will need them to have the skills to participate in scaling the low-carbon economy, or at the least, have the knowledge and correct understanding of carbon removal (and climate tech more broadly) to support well-intended endeavours in and around their communities.
Great work putting this together, Grant :)
Thank you for reading Tank, and the world thanks you for teaching your students about climate and CDR!