They aren't hiding now. We know who they are. It's not like some dude in Ethiopia is out there emptying cans of CFCs into the ozone and we've just missed him. They work in broad daylight and charge us for the pleasure of their services.
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You make a fair point.
But there's that old saying about what you know and what you can prove.
Being able to prove it might not change anything but calling attention to methane hot spots is a step in the right direction I guess?
Idk, I'm not trying to decry your cynicism if that's what it is
It's 100% cynicism, I won't hide that. We just see climate crimes happen all the time, and the companies behind it either ignore the problem they've created, or if we're lucky, pay a small fine that barely puts a dent in the profits they've made from the pollution. I'm all for identifying those that harm the environment, but I feel like we already have a pretty solid list of those companies. What we really need to do ramp up the punishment to make it not worth it for them. None of these companies are mustache-twirling villains in it to destroy the environment, they are mustache-twirling villains in it for the profit.
You make a lot of good points I'm in agreement pretty much all of it.
I also know we're on a doomed planet. Better put, we're on a planet that's heading for difficult conditions for humans for the next several hundred years at least.
I'm 30 years rn. I still plan on having kids. We're all going to die one day and honestly just the thought of blinking out of existence including me and my family and everybody in existence ever ( slowly, over the passage of time ofc ) scares me but we all know it's coming....
Where am I going with this? I think it's important to retain some sense of positivity as much as possible.
We're all going to die so I guess I'll just live well until I'm dead. Part of that for me at least includes believing that somehow someway were going to fix this problem.
It's a lot of copium tbh