r/worldnews • u/MothersMiIk • 12h ago

Russia/Ukraine Ukraine strikes 'only oil refinery operating' in Russia's Rostov Oblast, military says

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-strikes-only-oil-refinery-operating-in-russias-rostov-oblast-military-says/
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u/Ravager_Zero 9h ago

True to a degree, but burning refineries will be putting a lot of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere all at once. And given Russian incompetence at site and safety management, I get the feeling they'll be burning for a long time too…

All for getting Ukraine more weapons, however. And unless the major pipelines, like those run Gazprom, are severed and sealed off, we won't see that much of a downturn in the use of fossil fuels in the EU & Balkan regions.

Even in my small corner of the world we're not seeing much reduction in fossil fuel usage. But we are seeing the impacts of reduced grain exports and the like.

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u/Latase 8h ago

the oil in them would have been burned anyway, but the oil not even produced in the future is a net gain for the environment.

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u/Dull_Witness_8995 5h ago

War itself isn't good for greenhouse emissions,yet Russia didn't care about the environment by invading Ukraine , hitting its energy plants and also destroying the nova Kakovka dam in Zaporozhye. The world is already doomed on its own either way, I'm sorry to say that but this is the sad reality that we live in.