If you think this is simple, wait until you learn about oceans and forests do!

Trees are literally CO2 based solar batteries: they take CO2 + solar energy and store it as hydrocarbons and carbohydrates for later use. Every time you're sitting by a campfire you're feeling heat from solar energy. How much better does it get that free energy storage combined with CO2 scrubbing from the atmosphere!

When you look at the ocean, it's able to absorb 20-30% of all human caused CO2 emissions all with no effort on our behalf.

Unfortunately, these two solution are, apparently, "too good to be true" because we're increasingly reducing the ability of both to remove carbon. Parts of the Amazon are not net emitters of CO2 [0] and the ocean has limits to how much CO2 it can absorb before it starts reach its limit and become dangerously too acidic for ocean life.

0. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/14/amazon-r...