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In current situation greenhouse effect is probably at the bottom of everybody priority list.

• henearkr 4y ago
  Not at all. EU has been adamant that this was not the good time to go all-coal for example. They could have done just that but no, the whole population and the politics are against (except in a few illiberal "democracies"). Even in the US there is a lot of work done recently to patch the methane leaks in gas fields, for example, which have been spotted as big emitters (by negligence or lack of enforcement).
  • vachina 4y ago
    > in the US there is a lot of work done recently to patch the methane leaks in gas fields This sounds like a business sustainability decision rather than out of concern for the environment.
    • henearkr 4y ago
      No, the business side was Trump's side. "Sustainability" (but not in the planet-preserving / extinction-event-avoiding meaning) of fossil fuel over the next century is not at all a problem, if we wished so.
• gpderetta 4y ago
  Don't worry. The incoming nuclear winter will neatly offset the greenhouse warming. /s but not really...