Except for things covered with e.g. with tree canopy.

Diffraction limits truly prevent seeing an ant from space.

At visible wavelengths. Far ultraviolet may help, and of course inference techniques such as image stacking are commonplace in reconnaissance satellites.

Far UV won’t make it through the atmosphere.

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Okay, if you want to be pedantic, 1.3% of all CO2 emissions come from gas flaring (500 Million Tonnes annually on roughly 37.15 billion tonnes of CO2 emitted). Seems like a lot to me at a time when we are meant to be reducing all greenhouse gasses. It might be better to build power stations near these shale deposits to reduce coal and use this resource rather than pollution for no gain.