Hey everyone, you're tuned in to staying home, your revolutionary guide to the Green

New Deal on Josh Fox.

Today we're going to talk about something that is mildly controversial and I don't even

know if it works or it doesn't work but it seems to be an interesting concept that

we'll probably need to withstand a great deal more academic and scientific rigor.

The idea of climate restoration, the idea that we can take the carbon back out of the

atmosphere.

A lot of I think climate campaigners don't like to talk about this idea because it assumes

that we have dominion and control over the entire planet that we can put carbon into

the atmosphere and we can take it back out again and that that could lead to some rather

dangerous assumptions when it comes to geoengineering and so forth.

However, I do believe that my guest Rick Parnell of the Foundation for Climate Restoration

has good intentions and he's talking about the idea that we should be taking the carbon

back out of the atmosphere that we should be trying to reverse some of the effects of

climate change although it's not clear exactly if we can get the glaciers to re-freeze

or if we can get the weather patterns to change back or we can have less heat in the oceans

in the summertime.

It does seem though that creating some sense of I want to think about this as sort of gardening

for the planet, right?

When you go out there and you go out into nature nature is actually not left best alone

in my view.

Nature and man are co-creators, nature and people have a symbiotic relationship where

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