As I’m starting this paper, I’ve finished the primary source, the book in reference 1 in this paper. I will have completed four papers in this series after this paper is posted.
You might ask what there is only one first step, and three second steps. The two types of actions (“steps”) that mankind needs to take to mitigate climate change is (1) to convert all processes that produce greenhouse gas (GHG) to those that greatly reduce those emissions, and (2) remove much of the GHG from the atmosphere.
In the process of doing (1) we will displace major industries, and it seems that (2) might be a good destination (future work) for those industries. For instance, one obvious process we need to mitigate is the production and burning of fossil fuel, (coal and petroleum products). The primary process for accomplishing (2) is carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), and the petroleum industry developed this process, and it would be efficient for them to continue to host CCS and migrate from producing large quantities of combustible fuel to mostly carbon management.
