Virgin Earth Prize

I was reading this article on Sustainable Log about how Virgin and Al Gore after just having announced Live Earth have now released a $20 million competition to find a way of removing billions of tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere.

All of a sudden I feel very worried. While this has all the right intentions it just feels like it could go horribly wrong. Last thing we want is our atmosphere being filled with chemicals that would supposedly reduce CO2, but could also do all kinds of other damage.

I feel instead they should have taken more of a prevention rather than cure approach. If we could stop putting more and more CO2 into the atmosphere and plant more trees etc that could take care of the current CO2 we would be in a much better position.

It just feels like they are trying to find the silver bullet for global warming, and I just don't think it will be as easy as that, at least not without some potential repercussions.

All the same, anything that encourages people to start thinking more about the environment and ways to solve the associated problems is a good thing.