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Apytele@sh.itjust.works to Good News Everyone@piefed.social · 3 months ago

Oil spills from tankers have fallen to less than one-thirtieth of the levels seen in the 1970s

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Oil spills from tankers have fallen to less than one-thirtieth of the levels seen in the 1970s

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Apytele@sh.itjust.works to Good News Everyone@piefed.social · 3 months ago
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We’ve all seen the dramatic images of vast parts of the ocean caked in oil; birds and other wildlife stuck in the thick, dark liquid. These spills are both environmentally damaging and expensive to clean up.
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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    If you include drilling platforms, Deepwater Horizon would have made the 2010 graph equal the 1979 one.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
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      It should include pipelines too.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Using this thread to point out how much methane the natural gas industry and infrastructure leaks into the atmosphere with 25x the greenhouse effect of CO2.

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        I don’t disagree

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    Better tankers, better safety standards for ships in general, continuous revision and improvements of the SOLAS convention

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      But has anyone thought of the poor shareholders?

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    It should be zero. It should have always been zero.

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