Each year, there are about 150 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions from all sources. Trying to prevent carbon dioxide from getting into the atmosphere by restricting mobility and retarding industry does not appear to be a very promising avenue for reducing concentrations of carbon dioxide. The cost would be huge. The results would be minuscule. A better approach might be to focus on strategies aimed at absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Plants use carbon dioxide as an input to their growth.
Consequently, a strategy to promote more plant growth would act to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into vegetation biomass. Growing more trees, harvesting mature wood and converting it into durable wooden products, and replanting with new trees would promote a sustainable cycle that would remove carbon dioxide from the air and reduce its contribution to global warming. Putting discarded paper products into landfills were they would be buried and prevented from oxidizing would reduce carbon dioxide output. Fertilizing the oceans with iron-based compounds would also stimulate plant growth and extract carbon dioxide from the air. Just as iron-based fertilizer makes your lawn grow, it can make ocean plant life expand.