• da_gay_pussy_eatah [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        All the oil that isn’t getting extracted, processed, or shipped out of the Persian Gulf is oil that isn’t getting burned. Even blowing up oil storage ultimately reduces emissions, because all that oil gets burned exactly once (which is what would have happened to it anyway) and then the tanks are unusable, which means less (or no) oil will ultimately pass through them to get burned afterwards.

        • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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          Even blowing up oil storage ultimately reduces emissions, because all that oil gets burned exactly once (which is what would have happened to it anyway)

          this might not be true, there’s no catalytic converter on a random oil fire. remediation will never make fossil fuels “clean” but they do cut back on… iirc NO₂ and some of the sulfur compounds

          • da_gay_pussy_eatah [she/her]@hexbear.net
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            Fair, but my understanding was that those pollutants are highly toxic but not major contributors to global warming which I (perhaps mistakenly) view as a more relevant topic.

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      we’ll be erecting statues of his likeness in the future out of appreciation over how much of an impact he’s had over stopping climate change. lol

      future generations will know him as the orange-green man. lol