I think this is like saying "my car payments are $1000 per month for the next 10 years, and my rent is $30 per month for the next 80 years. For my financial hea

I think this is like saying "my car payments are $1000 per month for the next 10 years, and my rent is $30 per month for the next 80 years. For my financial health, why am I worried about the car payment when I will be paying rent for the rest of my life and the car payments will be over relatively soon?" The answer to that is the situation might not work out well.. If you have a total lifetime budget of $150k, then those car payments are devastating and you would be bankrupt before those 80 years are over. A kicker, who is to say that methane emissions are one time - and are not themselves increasing and also ongoing? The analogy is not quite exact, since the "rent payment" is more akin to be on the order of 200 years or so (and not just the one human lifetime), but hopefully it makes the point. Last, my understanding of the climate science is that we are very worried about getting through even the next 100 years. To explain, there is a window of time that is almost closed where drastic action can arrest further drastic rates of change in climate (by drastic rates, I'm speaking to 1 to 2 degrees C of warming within that time). It is important therefore we get a handle of this problem sooner rather than later (compare us (humans) "fixing" the methane problem 5 years from now compared to 30 years from now). Also keep in mind there are feedback loops that would be irreversible once triggered.