• Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    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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      4 days ago

      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.