"This is why geoengineers are currently trying to inject CO2 straight into Iceland, which rises above the surf from the volcanoes of the ocean’s mid-Atlantic ridge. They want to artificially weather these rocks, transmuting the island’s basalts directly into limestone, storing that CO2 permanently as geology. It’s also why the islands that stretch from Indonesia to the Philippines, and that started rising from the seafloor 20 million years ago, provide about 10 percent of the world’s carbon sink today: soaring volcanic islands that find themselves in the hot, storm-tossed tropics, perpetually lashed by typhoons and chewed apart by jungles, are veritable CO2 sponges."

— Peter Brannen: The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything