Agreed on taxing externalities, but rather than being used for redistribution, it should be used to fund carbon cleanup. I wonder if we could achieve the same

Agreed on taxing externalities, but rather than being used for redistribution, it should be used to fund carbon cleanup. I wonder if we could achieve the same net effect by allowing the carbon tax to be either negative or positive, paying people to produce net-negative CO2, so that it's possible to compete on who can do so most efficiently.