A realistic, globally scalable plan to transfer CO2 from the atmosphere into soil and raw materials is already available – it’s called industrial hemp.
Hemp is a carbon negative raw material; Meaning that hemp gives a permanent removal of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere. Hemp has been used extensively to kill weeds in agriculture and can be included as part of a farm’s crop rotation with positive effects on overall yields of follow on crops.
For more than a century, hemp was legal tender to pay American taxes. US President George Washington himself grew hemp. Thomas Jefferson even developed a better harvesting technique specific to hemp, and it can be seen on the back of our early $10 bills, which were made of hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic since the applications for the crop are virtually limitless. The federal government then subsidized hemp during WW2 and U.S. farmers grew approximately a million acres of hemp as part of that program.
Hemp for Victory is a black-and-white United States government film made during World War II and released in 1942. The film was made to encourage farmers to grow hemp for the war effort because other industrial fibers, often imported from overseas, were in short supply. The film shows a history of hemp and hemp products, how hemp is grown, and how hemp is processed into rope, cloth, cordage, and other products. The United States government denied ever having made such a film. The United States Department of Agriculture library and the Library of Congress told all interested parties that no such movie was made by the USDA or any branch of the US government. Two VHS copies were recovered and donated to the Library of Congress on 19 May 1989 by Maria Farrow, Carl Packard, and Jack Herer.