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A decade in the past, the U.S. barely despatched any of its pure gasoline abroad — however as of final yr, it turned the biggest exporter of the leak-prone, planet-warming gasoline within the world.
How did we get right here? To actually reply that query, we’ve acquired to return in time, to an period when coal was nonetheless king and fracking was simply an rising know-how. That’s precisely what our associates at Climate Town did of their new video, produced in partnership with Canary Media. The video chronicles how fossil gasoline rose to the highest of the U.S. power meals chain, changing into the nation’s major supply of electrical energy — and the way it turned a main export, too, within the type of liquefied pure gasoline, or LNG. Climate Town walks us by way of the entire story, shining a mild on why these developments current such an pressing downside for the planet.
Check the video out beneath or on Climate Town’s YouTube web page.
