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You think repairing literally millions of abandoned leaking natural gas wells is easier?

• DoingIsLearning 5y ago
  I don't really know but my gut feeling is that you can sit down with the 99.9% of those well owners at a single OPEC or IOGP meeting. However, you would struggle to enforce any meat industry curbing measure with the millions of meat producers spread across many developing countries.
  • morsch 5y ago
    If you think it's easier to focus on developed countries, North America and Europe are responsible for 1/3 of the global meat production (~110 million tons/year). China is another 80 million tons. On the consumption side, and leaving aside the micro-nation of Hong Kong, the US lead the per capita meat consumption charts with 124 kg/year, with other high-wealth countries close behind. (China: 61 kg/year.) The developing countries don't have to be a particular priority, at this point. https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production
  • elite_hackers 5y ago
    They don’t have owners, they are abandoned. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drilling-abandoned-specialreport/special-report-millions-of-abandoned-oil-wells-are-leaking-methane-a-climate-menace-idUSKBN23N1NL https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drilling-abandoned-sp...
    • DoingIsLearning 5y ago
      TIL. But even after insolvency there must be a way to enforce personal liability on whoever was in charge of the company that drilled the well in the first place.
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