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Natural carbon removal as technology
WIREs Climate Change ( IF 9.4 ) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 , DOI: 10.1002/wcc.767
Nils Markusson ₁

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Lay people tend to prefer natural solutions for carbon removal over technological ones. Researchers have argued that all carbon removal methods can be seen as “natural.” Here I argue that it is also in practice necessary to see all carbon removal methods as “technological,” that is, standardized, engineered, machine-like, enclosed systems. Natural carbon removal methods are complex socio-natural-technical messy systems that interact in complex ways with their environments. But to work well in practice as an option in climate policy—including in any emissions trading or offsetting schemes—they simultaneously need to be framed in much narrower terms, to be accountable (modellable, tradeable). And there will be efforts to not just frame, but physically make natural carbon removal as standardized, engineered, machine-like and enclosed as possible—although doomed to never be fully successful. It is in these senses that all carbon removal is technological. The ambiguity between an often vague framing as natural, a narrowly technological framing, and a wider socio-natural-technical framing, matters for public understanding and acceptance. Would lay publics still prefer natural solutions to carbon removal, if they are informed about the inevitable technological framing and shaping of them? Research is needed about this. It also matters for the risk of mitigation deterrence. Previous research shows that the narrow framing, of carbon removal methods as technology is implicated in societal processes that deter efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

中文翻译：

自然除碳技术

与技术解决方案相比，外行人更喜欢自然的碳去除解决方案。研究人员认为，所有的碳去除方法都可以被视为“自然的”。在这里，我认为在实践中也有必要将所有碳去除方法视为“技术”，即标准化、工程化、类似机器的封闭系统。自然碳去除方法是复杂的社会-自然-技术混乱系统，它们以复杂的方式与其环境相互作用。但要在实践中作为气候政策的一个选项（包括在任何排放交易或抵消计划中）发挥良好作用，它们同时需要以更窄的术语框架，负责（可建模，可交易）。并且将努力不仅在框架上，而且在物理上使自然碳去除尽可能标准化、工程化、机器式和封闭——尽管注定永远不会完全成功。正是在这些意义上，所有的碳去除都是技术性的。通常模糊的自然框架、狭义的技术框架和更广泛的社会-自然-技术框架之间的模糊性对于公众的理解和接受很重要。如果非专业公众了解不可避免的技术框架和塑造方式，他们是否仍会更喜欢自然的碳去除解决方案？需要对此进行研究。这对于缓解威慑的风险也很重要。先前的研究表明，狭窄的框架，

更新日期：2022-02-03

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