"Cost of carbon" -- yes, one scenario is that society dumps a few billion dollars into carbon removal technologies only to learn "oh shit this stuff is realllll

"Cost of carbon" -- yes, one scenario is that society dumps a few billion dollars into carbon removal technologies only to learn "oh shit this stuff is realllllllly expensive to pull out later...let's decarbonize overnight". Pretty sure all of us air miners would take that as a win. edit: I've also seen a similar argument made for developing geoengineering solutions. Being willing to dump chemicals into the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight makes a lot of people think "oh shit they're really serious about this climate change stuff arent' they", and then the outcome of "we should take this more seriously".