You're mixing up stocks and flows. Emissions are a flow. Co2 level is a stock. A recession will reduce the flow, but the stock will still increase. The hypothe

You're mixing up stocks and flows. Emissions are a flow. Co2 level is a stock. A recession will reduce the flow, but the stock will still increase. The hypothesized decrease of co2 in the 1500s from native american death was a decrease in the stock. Farmlands returned to wild states and sequestered carbon.