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Re:Satellite finds methane leaks from gas pipelines by belorn on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:31AM (#30206533)
We are currently in a situation where people are discussing if a military invasion is enough of a reason to stop buying gas. Germany in particular does not want to turn off the gas, and has invested a lot of money, infrastructure and political capital in order to use Russian gas in the next few decades.
Re:Satellite finds methane leaks from gas pipelines by yoavm on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:54AM (#30206769)
Ah cynical German could argue that Russia invading to Ukraine is none of their problems, but emitting methane sure is.

To clarify however, I didn't mean to say that Europe is clearly going to stop buying from these sources, just that _there are other means_. Too often with the climate crisis, options are there, but the nature of how we humans organized ourselves seem to stand in the way of taking them. Thinking of this as "well there's nothing we can do because it's in Turkmenistan" might sometimes be just a way to clear our conscious while not doing anything.