Welcome to hell. Courtesy of #HumanGreed and #hubris

"Hoping to burn off the #methane gas that floated up from the newly formed crater, the Soviets lit it on fire [in the 1980s]. They thought it would burn off the methane in a day or two. Five decades later, the crater's still burning.

"The Darvaza gas crater (Turkmen: Garagum ýalkymy), also known as the Door to Hell or Gates of Hell, or, officially, the Shining of Karakum, is a burning natural gas field collapsed into a cavern near #Darvaza, #Turkmenistan. The floor and especially rim of the crater is illumined by hundreds of natural gas fires."

#Methane #MethaneLeaks #OilAndGas #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #GreenhouseGas

Here’s a quicker read on the impact of #HumanGreed: 🔥🔥‼️ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/humans-take-more-wild-species-than-any-other-predator-on-earth-180982478/

#HumanGreed: “…humans exploit up to 300 times more species than comparable non-human predators.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-04940-w?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

@ihrf

👆 All of the world's problems can easily be solved. There are 3 key reasons why they aren't:

1. #HumanNature
2. #HumanGreed
3. #HumanSelfishness

(Y' can argue that 2 & 3 are just parts of 1, obvs.)

Solve those and everything else solves comparatively easily.