Carbon calamity 

Standing on the brink of a catastrophe

Do it green or do it cheap?

Offset or plant new trees?

Removal and store it deep?

Invest in new machines?

Either way carbon removal is the key

The key

Carbon calamity 

Standing on the brink of a catastrophe

Do it green or do it cheap?

Offset or plant new trees?

Removal and store it deep?

Invest in new machines?

Either way carbon removal is the key

The key

[Scale]

Let’s talk about nature-based, you know it scales the best

No need to reinvent, just take every piece of land we can get

Plant trees and agricultural techniques and we’re set

It’s naturally the next step while developing climate tech 

[Permanence]

Hold up, I think I smell some manure in your garden

You think we can just dig up permanent carbon?

Burn it as fossil fuel in our cars, and then what?

Fix it with feel-good farming? My friend, that’s pure jargon

[Scale]

It’s a huge market! Carbon credits protect trees

Imagine how effective those market mechanisms could be

[Permanence]

Effective? That’s facetious, unprovable past a thesis

Even the Amazon captures less carbon than it releases

You’re too focused on “cheapness”, obsessing “whether it scales”

Keep the minnows in your bucket, me I’m hunting whales

[Scale]

I really hope that fails, nature is priority

[Permanence]

Dummy, I mean hunting whales metaphorically

The goal is removal that’s permanent, not a tourniquet 

Removal that’s durable so carbon can’t burn again

And credits ready for anyone that’s ready to purchase them

[Scale]

For real?

Carbon calamity 

Standing on the brink of a catastrophe

Do it green or do it cheap?

Offset or plant new trees?

Removal and store it deep?

Invest in new machines?

Either way carbon removal is the key

The key

Carbon calamity 

Standing on the brink of a catastrophe

Do it green or do it cheap?

Offset or plant new trees?

Removal and store it deep?

Invest in new machines?

Either way carbon removal is the key

The key

[Scale]

You say you want removal that’s permanent? Come again?! (BLUE CARBON)

How many parts can we calculate per million? 

And the cost per metric ton removed is what again?

Your whales a drop in the bucket, buddy, just a sprinkling

Talkin’ that garbage should get you ticketed for littering

[Permanence]

Littering, please! The ground’s littered with leaves

[Scale]

That’s right, leaves have a killer carbon capture device

It’s called photosynthesis, and it’s essential for life

And decomposing leaves don’t just evaporate, dawg

They accumulate, you ever heard of a peat bog?

[Permanence]

Climate change is a deep swamp, I’ll admit it

But it doesn’t mean solutions are deeper in it

[Scale]

Forget your nature-obsession, this is straight-up invention 

Didn’t nature invent this already? Answer the question!

Let’s just use it! Natural carbon capture solutions

Instead of tech bros full of hopes and excuses

And crypto-abuses

[Permanence]

Better than mystical looseness

Nature beautiful, can’t refute it

But we shouldn’t tree-hug and let it just seduce us

[Scale]

So let tech solutions seduce us?

I’m saying we should do both

But start off where the proof is, and that’s no joke

Carbon calamity 

Standing on the brink of a catastrophe

Do it green or do it cheap?

Offset or plant new trees?

Removal and store it deep?

Invest in new machines?

Either way carbon removal is the key

The key

Carbon calamity 

Standing on the brink of a catastrophe

Do it green or do it cheap?

Offset or plant new trees?

Removal and store it deep?

Invest in new machines?

Either way carbon removal is the key

The key

[Permanence]

Now nature-based answers have their vulnerabilities

Like land management, project use and durability

You plant a tree, great, lightning strikes it to blaze

It burns, you re-release all the carbon you tried to save

[Scale]

Carbon capture is the same! Container storage degradation 

Could happen as fast as new technology integration

[Permanence]

Okay, it’s cost-benefit, come on, you gotta admit

Either the carbon wins or people succeed and sequester it

[Scale]

Never question it, from ‘carbon zero’ to ‘carbon negative’

The speed is the key, and faster is better than definite

[Permanence]

Now that’s where the key question is, ‘cause what if the speed

Takes investment away from the very tech that we need?

[Scale]

This is a huge goal, with calamity too close

I say let the market decide…

[Together]

Let’s do both!

Carbon calamity 

Standing on the brink of a catastrophe

Do it green or do it cheap?

Offset or plant new trees?

Removal and store it deep?

Invest in new machines?

Either way carbon removal is the key

The key

Carbon calamity 

Standing on the brink of a catastrophe

Do it green or do it cheap?

Offset or plant new trees?

Removal and store it deep?

Invest in new machines?

Either way carbon removal is the key

The key