How does the removal and re-use of carbon (which is being discussed here) illustrate a form of utopian geo-engineering (see Streeby)?

read Love in the Anthropocene (Chapter 2 “Carbon” from page 59) (Attached below)

 read Shelley Streeby (Attached below)
Order instructions: please offer a formal critique of the story “Carbon”. In addition to attending to the text’s formal literary elements, you are to consider the following:

how does the removal and re-use of carbon (which is being discussed here) illustrate a form of utopian geo-engineering (see Streeby)?

That is, how does the economic commitment to carbon make clear a cultural commitment to something called “petroculture”? How are we to understand the relationship between the removal of local communities and the investment projects being touted as environmentally progressive?