Kazakhstan KO

Methane is a 'greenhouse gas' with approximately 82 times the potency of carbon dioxide. BBC Verify have analysed the impact of the recent 'mega-leak' of methane from a remote oil well in Kazakhstan (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68166298). The methane leak started, when a blowout in June 2023, started a fire. This fire was only extinguished on the 25th of December 2023. By this time, an estimated 127,000 tonnes of methane had escaped into the atmosphere. The US Environmental Protection Agency's 'Greenhouse Gas Calculator' reckons this is equivalent to driving more than 717,000 petrol-engined cars for a year. It's no wonder that folk are not incentivised to make collective changes to their lifestyles to reduce climate change. Individual changes seem so puny, when compared to events like this over which they have no control.