Yeah, that sounds more reasonable. Pay people for the quantity of carbon they sequestered at the point it's turned into biochar and buried (or whatever technol

Yeah, that sounds more reasonable. Pay people for the quantity of carbon they sequestered at the point it's turned into biochar and buried (or whatever technology is used), and maybe have financial instruments set up so that investors can buy the rights to future carbon from the people growing the trees, so the growers don't have to wait fifty years to get paid. If there's a forest fire, the investors lose their investment, and that's just part of the built-in risk. On the micro-scale, I wonder if towns and cities could start incentivizing people to dispose of more yard waste. For instance, you get a rebate on your garbage bill based on how many hundreds of pounds of lawn clippings and branches you stuff in your yard waste bins each year (assuming that yard waste is processed in a way that sequesters the carbon, and people don't try to game the system by filling their bins with dirt or trash). You could also have something like a free service for people in rural areas to request a dumpster that they can fill with organic material and have hauled away as an alternative to just burning it.