# @kirstenalana on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CIa5MdhhJnt
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2429369-kirstenalana-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/f719fbce62.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-12-05T14:56:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kirsten Alana (@KirstenAlana) — https://gondola.cc/KirstenAlana

## Caption

If you had to take a photo of ‘air’, what would that look like? 🌬❄️ 🌪 I asked this on Twitter when I was invited to become an ‘Artist for Air’ by tomorrowsair_ This is one of 3 images they chose to share when they announced my having been chosen and is similar in concept to some of the answers I received. In the end, it’s a bit nebulous and personal. Still, I look forward to the challenge as a volunteer artist with the Tomorrow’s Air team who are passionate travellers working together to clean carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in partnership with direct air capture innovator Climeworks. From their site, “Travel contributes significantly to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the atmosphere; travel makes up 8% of more of all carbon emissions considering transport, accommodation, shopping, & meals. The atmosphere that protects Earth from the sun and preserves our stable climate has limits to the emissions that it can contain. It now contains so much CO2 that even if all emissions halted tomorrow, we would still have to clean our atmosphere because it takes hundreds to thousands of years to remove by natural processes alone. Scientists agree that carbon removal is necessary to avoid dangerous climate change. Offsetting emissions is not the same as removing them permanently. With carbon offsetting, the purchaser of the offset compensates for its own emissions by paying someone else to avoid emissions elsewhere. We can’t just plant more trees to solve our atmosphere’s carbon dioxide problem because the amount of carbon dioxide that has to be removed is too great in the desired timeline to do it. One estimate for doing this with trees alone is 700 years. To keep our planet’s climate stable, we need to be at net zero emissions by 2050.” 🌎 That’s why before I was asked to join, I was already a customer paying to help remove carbon dioxide through the collective. Now I’m proud to help represent this as one more option for how we can take care of ourselves & the planet. Whether you subscribe to Tomorrow’s Air for carbon removal or simply join us to help spread the word, I hope I’ve helped you understand its importance as an option. #TomorrowsAir

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