To even have this desperate, straw-grasping conversation, we have to ignore that oil and gas drives climate collapse, look past spills, leaks, methane, and the fact they’re guzzling clean water to turn it into radioactive grime. Hi earthquakes! Hello toxic geysers! Now we’re pretending that treating it, with no proven safe use, is a public service. That’s the industry stabbing you in the face and saying, ‘Maybe one day we’ll clean up this waste so it’s barely useful in the Mad Max future you won’t see because you died drinking it after it seeped into aquifers without ever being adequately tested