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With climate change looming, it seems so completely backwards to go back to using it again.

Is it coal miners pushing to keep their jobs? Fear of nuclear power? Is purely politically motivated, or are there genuinely people who believe coal is clean?


Edit, I will admit I was ignorant to the usage of coal nowadays.

Now I'm more depressed than when I posted this

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I genuinely thought coal was phased out as an option for power, and that fossil fuels were starting it's (very long) descent to being phased out just the same.

Fossil fuels will take way longer, but why the more recent interest in coal again?? That's the part I cannot understand, and I don't know where it came from

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Coal is a fossil fuel, btw. Part of the problem is that through subsidies, the cost of energy is being kept artificially low in the US. We need the increase in cost to de-incentivize oil/gas/coal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lol nope we're fucked