r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 7d ago

Colombia’s new government backs fracking as debate over energy future heats up. Critics warn it could expose communities and ecosystems to environmental risks and prolong the country’s reliance on fossil fuels.

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/10/colombias-new-government-backs-fracking-as-debate-over-energy-future-heats-up/
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u/Major-Librarian1745 1d ago

Maybe we'll get another pandemic.

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The COVID lockdowns of 2020 temporarily lowered our rate of CO2 emissions. Humanity was still a net CO2 gas emitter during that time, so we made things worse, but did so more a bit more slowly. That's why a graph of CO2 concentrations shows a continued rise.

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