Removing carbon from the atmosphere would certainly reduce food production to famine levels. The same job can be done by planting trees., which consume CO2 the way nature intended it.

IBM’s Watson is coming out in 2017 to dominate AI in several fields at once, and it founded Science for Social Good to promote the UN’s 2030 Agenda. This puts IBM squarely in the camp of Technocrats who are intent on establishing Technocracy

‘Slow start’ means anything but stillborn; The 2030 Agenda is like a huge cruise ship that take a very long time to change direction. The weight of global commerce is slowly, but surely, getting behind the SDGs in order to secure their own fortunes in future global trade.

A ‘resource-based’ economic system like Sustainable Development (aka Technocracy) seeks to hoard all resources on the planet. The oceans are a huge part of the resource pie, and they are coming for them.