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Catching Carbon
Plants can suck CO2 out of the air, but people can also
develop technologies to do this. notes Rachel Seevers, 17.
Rachel is a senior at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in
Lexington, Ky. These technolo
gies could trap carbon as it is
produced from fossil fuel plants, she says, or even suck it
directly out of the air. "You can take emissions and recapture
them and reuse them... take it out of the air and use it for
good." If you want to force people to change, says Kevin
Chengming Qian, 18, hit them where it counts their wallets.
The senior at Montgomery Blair High School would "assign
values to each thing that's harmful [to the climate), and when
each person does that, I'd tax them. You get charged extra, he
says, if it's clear you don't care about climate
