Dustbowl?

It seems that there is a quick way of lowering atmospheric carbon dioxide, before we get round to the necessary but urgent reductions in the use of hydrocarbon fuels (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/08/spreading-rock-dust-on-fields-could-remove-vast-amounts-of-co2-from-air). The method, Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW), involves spreading basalt (and, perhaps, other rock) dust on agricultural fields. ERW, not only improves the fertility of the soil (actually increasing, rather than competing with food production, as is the case with biofuels), but it combines with the greenhouse gas. Some farmers already apply powered limestone to their fields to correct acidity (so, dust spreading is a familiar technique). Basalt dust is also a by-product in some mining operations (so it can be easily available, hopefully without requiring too much additional energy to produce it). ERW, it is suggested, would actually work best in India and China where it is hot and wet. It appears that encouraging the spreading of this dust on fields would be of real benefit in the current climate emergency but we still need to rapidly move away from fossil fuels and to plant more trees. It's a sticking plaster (albeit a useful one) and not a cure!