Costs, Risks, and Realities: Reassessing CCS and Afforestation as Climate Solutions

Abstract

 With the development of technology, people are gradually adapting to utilizing more and more machines. However, this type of matter causes the release of carbon dioxide, which leads to the greenhouse effect. Therefore, the global temperature continues to increase. As a result, people have developed several methods to reduce CO2 concentration, including carbon capture and storage and afforestation. However, these methods have some drawbacks, and people tend to be overly optimistic about them, although they can reduce carbon dioxide emissions to a certain extent. Thus, this article highlights some problems by examining official data and conducting experiments. In brief, both methods have adverse effects, such as increasing the cost, and they appear to reduce carbon dioxide emissions but actually increase them behind the scenes.