I read this article and became "awoke" to this insult on the world. These violators of good sense and ecological responsibility, with their cynical actions, are being called-out.
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| Not Clever! |
No amount of corporate "green washing" can explain nor condone such global pollution that contributes greatly to the demise of long-stable weather systems, because of global warming and gaseous pollutants.
People are suffering enough around the world, yet these companies will care not, as long as they receive little "blow-back" from whole populations and legislators alike. "Fu** you" seems to be their attitude on this topic. I would like more of us to say back to them, "just clean up your act or the financial fines will make it more expensive than addressing your problem, so to remedy it". (I'm so naive aren't I?)
Though they must have access to technologies to give a productive use to their "waste" (Methane gas mostly), they choose not to, because it doesn't make them any more profitable, (as if they are suffering), and because WE, THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD, do not call them out at local and national levels, especially in the Middle East, where this problem is most acute. Even those whose countries allow flaring, Iraq in this case, want change.
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| Flaring in the Middle East |
There have been many reports and warnings, but what you don't see you don't worry about it seems, but really, when will we wake up to a few things? The elephant in the room (so to speak) is us, peoples of the world, for there are far too many of us and we demand too much from the world in terms of its sufferance of our exponential gluttony and its by-products.
Please may I implore you to lessen your demands: travel less, don't fly, eat less, use one computer screen instead of two, buy a car with a cleaner engine (not electric because of the monumental waste issues and disposal of them in less than a decade), use efficient LED lighting, beg for Hydrogen and solar power, have less children* (your money will go further and there will be less demand), press your suppliers to address their polluting, be prepared to pay more for what you buy and so buy less, look after your clothes, wash some less and ignore fashion (for we are people and not sheep and remember - style will always trump "fashion"). Become an "Essentialist" (not a minimalist) and buy what you need, let stuff become worn-out, recycle, upcycle, or just cycle for fitness, improve before you remove, and don't think you're inferior if your neighbours have more for they are just being needy, but you are being strong. Think of your children or future children and leave them guidance for helping the earth to look after us all, for they should have a better life than you but they may not get the chance if we totally screw the world.
We are on a road to no-where and we, today's people, are driving like fools.
* For the sake of future survival on this planet have less children, for we truly are now, "the elephant in the room"; we are the problem, the difficult issue that is very obvious but is ignored for convenience or comfort.
Rant over; but we can only effect meaningful collective change from within, and as consumers force our suppliers to change by not buying their "stuff" until they change. Perhaps if we collectively do NOT buy from one supplier they will feel the power of their (former) consumers and scare other suppliers into action. Getting back to the gas flares around the world, perhaps we could send a message by simply not buying from the most prolific offenders (like Liverpudlians who won't buy the Sun newspaper). Do this for months and that will make their industry sit-up and experience our dissatisfaction with their particular insult to the world. Your expenditure gives you all the power in this case.
More learned people offer further reading.
Global gas flaring observed from space and also here.
Routine gas flaring is wasteful,, polluting and unmeasured.
More information - technical and in depth.
COP28 in Dubai was a cop-out, so will oil and coal producers actually take notes? Including Australia.
At last, Google will bring more publicity to this problem.
P.S. Trees of any kind (maybe not Palm oil plantations) are good for the earth as they soak up all sorts of crap, air air-born gaseous pollutants and give us Oxygen, whilst enabling many forms of biological diversity amongst them; so if you are able, please plant a tree and nurture it as best you can, if not for yourself but the children of the next 200 years. Perhaps checkout this site as well.
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