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I'm all for cycling, but I can't help but compare: if Turkmenistan stopped venting methane from two gas fields, we'd save the equivalent of 366 million tons of CO2 a year. theguardian.com/world/2023/may/09/mind-boggling-methane-emissions-from-turkmenistan-revealed @_dmoser/1562434544183128066
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"ok, yeah, but it's Turkmenistan. what can we do about them?" the US's oil & gas infrastructure had the second worst record for methane leaks. and gas fields planned for development are projected to leak the equivalent of a billion tons of CO2. theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/06/revealed-1000-super-emitting-methane-leaks-risk-triggering-climate-tipping-points
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i still feel like the point at which we know we are making actual progress on climate change is the point at which the rights to undeveloped fossil fuel fields stop being worth trillions.