This.

Also, look at the attic, check for roof leaks and adequate ventilation. Make sure your soffit vents aren’t clogged, and the soffit baffles and ridge vent have actually been installed properly.

Untrue.
Just letting a forest grow wild is carbon neutral. The soil reaches a point of saturation. Eventually the dead trees get eaten by detritivores, releasing the captured carbon back into the air.
Keeping it sequestered long term requires burying it deep - the trees would need to be cut down and transported to where bacteria, fungus, and so on can’t eat them.

It is simply a necessity to develop better methods to pull CO2 directly from the air and to do it on the same scale that we have been releasing CO2.

Exactly this. The oil we burn today needs to be re-made tomorrow and put back into the hole it was pumped out of.