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Either you abandon fossil fuels, or you find a way to get that carbon back.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

As soon as you plow, you're releasing carbon.

It is important that carbon storage is carefully regulated, that the process is transparent to the public, and that there is a clear accounting of what happened to the CO2. This is particularly true of underground storage, where there is always a small chance that pressurized CO2 could escape.

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural.

I don't think you have a choice but to pull CO2 back that has already made it out, or is about to make it out, because we are not overnight shutting down all the coal plants.

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.

There are many theories about the best way to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere - some are ludicrous, others are at least worth study. The most commonly discussed plan is to lace the sky with reflective chemicals.

Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.