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US oil production hits all-time high, conflicting with efforts to cut heat-trapping pollution (apnews.com)
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[–] bouncing@partizle.com 15 points 1 year ago

They are not conflicting. Yes oil production is higher but that’s mostly in response to OPEC producing less.

Overall fossil fuel use is in decline. Probably not enough decline to arrest the greenhouse effect, but that ship has already sailed.