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It doesn't need to be sustainable, a short-term reduction in emissions it's also helpful and buys more time to go carbon free. It's a complete lie that we have
by eloff 4y ago
It doesn't need to be sustainable, a short-term reduction in emissions it's also helpful and buys more time to go carbon free. It's a complete lie that we have to transition directly from our current state to zero carbon with no stops in between. Fracking is something really only done in the US. Doing more fracking internationally could really bring emissions down. Fracking has done more to reduce US emissions than all the climate change policy combined.
The point you bring up about methane leaks is salient though, if you can't do it without leaking too much methane, it doesn't make sense. However, I don't think that's impossible. Taxing methane leakage and monitoring it from satellites, as one idea of how to do that, seems quite possible.
Obviously it's also good to mitigate damage to the environment via waste products, etc, but that also seems to be possible with the right regulation and enforcement.