With temperatures breaching the Paris limit, experts say tackling the powerful gas could buy crucial time as the clean-energy shift stalls

With temperatures breaching the Paris limit, experts say tackling the powerful gas could buy crucial time as the clean-energy shift stalls

  • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.vgEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    Anything helps.

    “Cutting methane is the single most important strategy to slow near-term warming,” says Durwood Zaelke, the president of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, and a longtime advocate of action on methane. “In fact, it’s the only strategy that has a chance of working. Cutting carbon dioxide is a marathon, but methane is a sprint.”

    Cutting methane emissions is much more in the realm of cutting the more optional activity, so it’s a great low hanging fruit. This also applies to the meat industry.

    • naught101@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      As long as it doesn’t distract from the core goal of reducing fossil fuel extraction. In the long run, that’s the only thing that matters.