Maybe, maybe not. But I saw an awesome video from Standford on Youtube about a process to scrub C02 out of power plants and turn it into carbonate based sand, aggregate, and cement. This could offset our C02 production while providing more sand that we'd know what to do with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Unt7MRsV4&index=56&list=PL...