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So like a smaller version of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event

e.g, instigate some large bloom of plant matter or algae, and engineer/find the right conditions for the matter to sink to the bottom of the ocean without decomposing.



At least the first part. There’s an easy profit motive: increasing the base of the food chain feeds the rest of it, and some of those are products we like to eat.

The second part, if you can find a profit motive to compost the ocean floor and actually do it in a profitable way, then it will get done. Else we’re stuck relying on natural processes.




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