Backstory

Baba: “I had never heard of an ‘AirMiner’ before, but I was intrigued. I had also never done a ‘Rap Up’ via Zoom before, but before COVID-19 I performed them regularly in person…” Read more at LinkedIn

Lyrics

Inhale – four seconds – mine it for oxygen
Exhale – new CO², you’re just launchin’ it
Climate change, it’s the ultimate problem set
AirMiners got the tech to start solvin’ it

Take a molecule of carbon and straight bottle it
AirMiners bringin’ the tech to start solvin’ it
It’s good for the Terrans if it’s good for the Martians
Take it from Kim Stanley Robinson

Don’t talk about “moral hazard” on the shores of disaster
If you have a carbon capture tech, push it forward faster
‘Cause the parts per million are goin’ up instead of clearing
Call it a tech solution, just don’t say “geo-engineering”

That’s a dirty word, but come on, no word is perfect
Biological methods have side effects on the earth’s surface
Let’s get a hundred parts per million sequestered quickly
To get us back on a safe track, even if Kim would settle for 50

Chillin’ in his backyard like the Big Lobowski
Science over politics – big-up Anthony Fauci
We need everything carbon negative, so keep your lousy
“Carbon Neutral Conference” and call Tito Jankowski

To pull the industry leaders together in cyberspace
The only conference where the comments are like:
“I LOVE carbonic anhydrase!”
It’s all about that carbon count factor, so count backwards
From four hundred and fifteen, in Arizona with Klaus Lackner

The principle is simple, and can’t be put simply enough
If you dump garbage, it’s your job to clean it up
Reuse and Recycle are nice but they’re prosaic
Compared to hydrocarbon fuels produced by photovoltaics

So get your sequestration certificates lined up
And if carbon is the problem, you might want to mine some
Time’s up… no more quibbles about the remainders
Just get a hundred million carbon capturing shipping containers

Or maybe a few yoga mats, and bracelets a plenty
Made from atmospheric CO², baby, ask Eri Gentry
We gotta Reuse, Recycle… and… oops, what was the third?
Rick Perry moment – REDUCE! – the number of words

Just like the number of guilt trips that tend to emerge
When talkin’ about climate, ask Nicholas Eisenberger
Pure energy is dope, get the investors in the flow
And down to get the carbon out, everybody’s getting woke

To where the new carbon capture tech players chill
From Alexsandra Guerra at Nori to Diego Saez-Gil
Capture the carbon market, for cash, and plus it’s pretty fun
Tree planting alone can get us 200 gigatons

That’s Track One – about the economics when you mine air
Track Two is technology – I spent a little bit less time there
But I caught Heidi Lim from Opus Twelve, tryin’ to delve
Into the re-gen tech that built the Iowa dirt shelf

Before the buffalo ungulate herds was all murdered
There’s billions of acres still ready to be converted
Christian Shearer taught me that, we don’t need to eat them
Re-wilding with excrement – that’s natural re-gen

How’s that Peter Eisenberger, are you feelin’ the surge
Of social entrepreneurs, ready to mine like ClimeWorks?
You said it’s gotta be “cash first”, demand, ready to meet it
Daniel Egger was like: “logistics first!” – typical European

Ready to get the people hype, instead of eating the bison
Eat the protein that comes from the air, like Lisa Dyson
10 billion people fed out of thin air, you did it girl!
The state of Texas compressed to a building no bigger than DisneyWorld

The solution is obtainable, AirMiners ain’t takin’ no
Disconfirmation to heart, the picture is so paintable
The current fossil fuel system is un-maintainable
But take it from Lisa, we can get to ultra-sustainable

No time to chill though, take it from Jason Grillo
Make a list of stakeholders, don’t lay your head on a pillow

One day we’re tryin’ to see Mars, COVID-19’s hard
Too much time in quarantine, one day we’re gonna see bars
And restaurants open again, I know it seems hard
But I get by with the gentle melodies of The SeaStars

It’s all about the money money money – cha-ching
Money money money in that tight bag
Carbon is a form of garbage, it needs a price tag
Carbon is everything, don’t treat it like a drag
Treat it like an opportunity to make swag

Jewelry, synthetic fuels, we can maintain
And be the planet’s alpha healers instead of its main pain
I love the SeaStars, they brought their game-face
Plus I learned stuff, like Kelly and Amanda are in the same place!

Room-mates? Or breakin’ social distancing rules?
There’s gold in them hills, it doesn’t just glitter for fools
We can find it, the air is full of beautiful diamonds
And we got the crew up in here, ready to mine them

Inhale – four seconds – mine it for oxygen
Exhale – new CO², you’re just launchin’ it
Climate change, it’s the ultimate problem set
AirMiners got the tech to start solvin’ it

Take a molecule of carbon and straight bottle it
AirMiners bringin’ the tech to start solvin’ it
It’s good for the Terrans, so it’s good for the Martians
You can take it from Kim Stanley Robinson