Bread and Circuses on Nostr: The subheading of this article (shown in screenshot below) includes what could be the ...
The subheading of this article (shown in screenshot below) includes what could be the understatement of the century:
“Something is wrong with the system.”
Ya think?
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There are more than 2,600 methane-spewing landfills across the United States. They leak the equivalent of 287 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year into the air — a volume comparable to 74 coal-fired power plants. A recent study by Carbon Mapper, a nonprofit that operates methane-detecting satellites, found methane emissions from landfills are 40% higher than previously estimated by the EPA.
“Landfills were actually found to be worse than oil and gas in the sense that when methane plumes happen, they’re more persistent,” said Katherine Blauvelt, a campaign director at Industrious Labs, an environmental organization working to decarbonize heavy industries. “If there was a canary in the coal mine, it’d be dead.”
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➡️ https://grist.org/regulation/landfill-emissions-methane-inspections/
Something wrong with the system? Damn right there is. Capitalism is killing us. We need system change NOW.
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Degrowth
“Something is wrong with the system.”
Ya think?
____________________________
There are more than 2,600 methane-spewing landfills across the United States. They leak the equivalent of 287 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year into the air — a volume comparable to 74 coal-fired power plants. A recent study by Carbon Mapper, a nonprofit that operates methane-detecting satellites, found methane emissions from landfills are 40% higher than previously estimated by the EPA.
“Landfills were actually found to be worse than oil and gas in the sense that when methane plumes happen, they’re more persistent,” said Katherine Blauvelt, a campaign director at Industrious Labs, an environmental organization working to decarbonize heavy industries. “If there was a canary in the coal mine, it’d be dead.”
____________________________
➡️ https://grist.org/regulation/landfill-emissions-methane-inspections/
Something wrong with the system? Damn right there is. Capitalism is killing us. We need system change NOW.
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Degrowth