every election has consequences but it's often those closest to you which have the biggest impact in your daily life.it's safe to say the pandemic has illustrated the importance of local elections perhaps as well as any event in our lifetime.
Whatever Russia does, is with a greater than 10% bigger environmental impact than what we do in the US. This means that the environmental impact of every barrel of oil harvested there is at least having a 10% worse environmental impact than a like barrel harvested in the United States.