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I hope not. Especially if it means strip mining the ocean floor. Oh, and that CO2 thing as well.

Fossil fuels should be incentivized away as quickly as possible.

Of course, but it'll be very attractive at first. So handy for port cities, which are among the largest cities in the world.

And no strip-mining fortunately. Just drilling, pump down some warm water, hydrates dissolve and natural gas starts flowing. Pipeline to land and voila.

The problem is that this slush methane is going to melt with global warming and is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

There are oceans of it under the seafloor.

Yep. Let's leave 'em there.

We need to decarbonize as quickly as possible.

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