> Ultimately what matters is minimizing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. If that were the only thing that matters then the deepwater horizon oil spill woul

> Ultimately what matters is minimizing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. If that were the only thing that matters then the deepwater horizon oil spill would have been great, but there's much more to protecting the environment than CO2. > You could do that by pumping oil into a landfill in a way that it can't be burned It was, it's been their for hundreds of millions of years.