I can picture a funny scenario playing out in my head right now that feels like a scene from the TV show “Kids Say The Darnedest Things”. 

If you were to tell a child that all the big industrial machines humans use every day – from factories to cars to airplanes and more – are putting a harmful gas called “carbon” into the air and making the earth sick, and then ask him/her how they would fix it, you might hear: 

“I'd get a giant straw that sucks all that bad stuff out of the air, and then I'd dig a humongous hole in the ground and bury it way way deep into the ground so it can't ever hurt us again.” 

And that, my friends, is often how great ideas are born. 

This so-called “carbon removal factory” in Iceland is doing essentially that, give-or-take some incredible engineering along the way. It will have the capacity to capture around 36,000 tons of CO2 per year. By contrast, humans pump around 40 billion tons into the air each year. So this is by no means a magic fix, but it's part of the solution. 

Maybe we need more kids coming up with more ideas to really solve this once and for all.