ABSTRACT
I argue that confronting climate change requires conceptualizing and crafting a post-carbon planetary politics focused on removing carbon from the atmosphere. A focal point for beginning to build this politics should be carbon removal networks. I conceptualize these networks as vehicles that tap diverse knowledge domains (from sciences such as ecology or chemistry to activism and the law) to establish a planetary-wide political alliance which removes carbon while delivering nutrition, shelter, and care to populations in all manner of geographical settings. Such networks would mobilize the cooperative and collaborative power of civil society to establish an extensive, significant, and as yet under-recognized, ‘civil society carbon sink.’ I then suggest astute political organizing might take advantage of contemporary (and emerging) technologies to build such alliances and amplify the potential impact of organizing to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
