Natural gas is abundant, versatile – and much cleaner than coal. It lets us keep the lights on AND reduce emissions. That's great, right? Well, yes. If it wasn't for one small detail: it's still a fossil fuel.

Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann 
Video Editor: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk & Kiyo Dörrer

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Read More: 

Burning the Gas "Bridge Fuel" Myth: https://priceofoil.org/content/upload...

The Production Gap Report: https://productiongap.org/2021report/

The "carbon bombs" set to trigger a catastrophic climate breakdown: https://www.theguardian.com/environme...

Methane Emissions from the U.S. Oil and Gas Supply Chain: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Permian Basin study: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/...

International Gas Union: https://www.igu.org/

International Association of Oil & Gas Producers: https://www.iogp.org/

Chapters: 
00:00 Intro
01:01 The natural gas boom
02:33 Bridge fuel argument
04:04 Methane leaks
07:15 Still a fossil fuel
10:11 What to do instead?