OVER THE PAST FEW CENTURIES, WE HAVE DUG, CHOPPED, BURNED, DRILLED, PUMPED, STRIPPED, FORGED, FLARED, LIT, LAUNCHED, DRIVEN, AND FLOWN OUR WAY TO ADDING 2.4 TRILLION METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE TO EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE. That’s as much CO2 as would be emitted annually by 522 billion cars, or 65 cars per person living today.
On a lonely, lunar-like valley 20 miles outside of Reykjavík, Iceland, Edda Aradóttir is on a mission to put it back where it came from.
She’s returning a tiny bit of it today but much, much more of it in the years ahead. In sending CO2 deep beneath the surface of the planet, she’s aiming to reverse one of the most consequential acts of human history: the unearthing of massive amounts of subterranean carbon as fossil…