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Hello and welcome to Behind the News.

My name is Doug Henwood.

Two segments today, no radical departure there.

We'll hear first from Christian Prenty.

He'll tell us how it's technically feasible to suck carbon out of the air.

Turn it into rock and maybe head off total climate disaster.

And then the anthropologist, Karim Robbie, will talk about how real estate development has supplanted state development

as the focus of the Palestinian project.

In proof that the climate crisis should no longer be spoken of in the future tense, this summer is providing plenty.

We have to do something and fast to avoid civilizational collapse and possible mass extinction.

One underappreciated possibility, carbon dioxide removal.

He worth more is Christian Prenty, a writer and political economist who teaches at John Jay College in Manhattan.

He is on the show recently to talk about his book Radical Hamilton.

Christian has an essay on the topic of carbon removal and a collection called Has it Come to This?

edited by JP Sapinski, Holly Jean Buck and Andreas Mom, published by Rutgers University Press.

Christian Prenty.

Okay, so there are really giant vacuum cleaners that can suck the carbon dioxide out of the air.

There are, yes, there is technology to strip CO2 out of the atmosphere.

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