Environment & Energy

Well, it does when it is swathed in photosynthetic plants. They take that CO₂ and H₂O and produce hydrocarbons, releasing O₂ as a by-product, oh, there are other process at work as well, but plants do the heavy lifting.

“Terrestrial photosynthesis inferred from plant carbonyl sulfide uptake” by Jiameng Lai, Linda M. J. Kooijmans, Wu Sun, Danica Lombardozzi, J. Elliott Campbell, Lianhong Gu, Yiqi Luo, Le Kuai and Ying Sun, 16 October 2024, Nature.
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08050-3

Of course, we’ve been doing our level best to eliminate them and it was a very slow process before we got involved.