You are done russia, tap the fuck out while you are still more than a brand name China slaps on cheap products.
It hurts the environmentalist in me to see images of Oil infrastructure burning like this, the damage is real… but like… fuck russia, if there is ever a time to look past the immediate environmental impact of a military strike on oil and gas infrastructure, certainly russia is at very top of the list.
Also, Ukraine is investing into alternative energy and what these images convey isn’t just a strategic failure for russia to evolve but something deeper and more global. This is the world in some way saying firmly that the beginning of the end of fossil fuels have come, or rather it is the world saying it in a newly undeniable way after having asked nicely for so long for such a future to come to pass.
Geopolitically, the Ukraine War in many ways was launched in attempt to prevent this future of a credible alternative to the byzantine and predatory power structures of fossil fuels and all the empires they enable in Eastern Europe.
The message is clear and actually kind of hopeful in a strange way, if we want stability, peace and an end to pointless, corrupt resource wars that rip countries apart than we MUST invest in alternative energy. The fragility of fossil fuel infrastructure creates far too sure of a lever from which the ruling class of the world can manipulate us into killing each other instead of working together for a better future.
All this to say, I can be an environmentalist and still find these flames beautiful to behold.
Yes, it’s painful as an environmentalist to see the infrastructure burning, but if it had reached its destination then it would have been burned just the same. Probably more cleanly than this mess, and the fine soot particles contribute more to global heating than ‘complete combustion’, but the carbon would still have been released to atmosphere. Doing it this way will at least halt the flow for a good long while, which has real environmental benefits.
I do hope the wind isn’t blowing that shit over our friends in Estonia and Finland; that stuff looks like cancer.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3391402#map=12%2F59.6565%2F28.2608
You are done russia, tap the fuck out while you are still more than a brand name China slaps on cheap products.
It hurts the environmentalist in me to see images of Oil infrastructure burning like this, the damage is real… but like… fuck russia, if there is ever a time to look past the immediate environmental impact of a military strike on oil and gas infrastructure, certainly russia is at very top of the list.
Also, Ukraine is investing into alternative energy and what these images convey isn’t just a strategic failure for russia to evolve but something deeper and more global. This is the world in some way saying firmly that the beginning of the end of fossil fuels have come, or rather it is the world saying it in a newly undeniable way after having asked nicely for so long for such a future to come to pass.
Geopolitically, the Ukraine War in many ways was launched in attempt to prevent this future of a credible alternative to the byzantine and predatory power structures of fossil fuels and all the empires they enable in Eastern Europe.
The message is clear and actually kind of hopeful in a strange way, if we want stability, peace and an end to pointless, corrupt resource wars that rip countries apart than we MUST invest in alternative energy. The fragility of fossil fuel infrastructure creates far too sure of a lever from which the ruling class of the world can manipulate us into killing each other instead of working together for a better future.
All this to say, I can be an environmentalist and still find these flames beautiful to behold.
See related article https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russia-s-ust-luga-port-halts-oil-shipments-after-ukrainian-attack/
Yes, it’s painful as an environmentalist to see the infrastructure burning, but if it had reached its destination then it would have been burned just the same. Probably more cleanly than this mess, and the fine soot particles contribute more to global heating than ‘complete combustion’, but the carbon would still have been released to atmosphere. Doing it this way will at least halt the flow for a good long while, which has real environmental benefits.
I do hope the wind isn’t blowing that shit over our friends in Estonia and Finland; that stuff looks like cancer.
Yeah, the longer the war lasts, the worse it is for the environment.