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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€“] Ravi@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

People will do everything that givesthem an advantage in anykind of way. If coal is an affordable resource to fulfill a need it will be mined and put to use.

You may change the view on a thing for a few persons, but never of all of them.

[โ€“] Lauchs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same reasons we won't solve the climate crisis, democracy and capitalism are not great at dealing with long term, side spread problems.

If you re-open a coal mine in a depressed community, you've earned a lot of votes while the people who were on the green side of things are diffused throughout the world.

[โ€“] Zippy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Socialism into communism has been disapproval far worse from an environmental point of view. Well from nearly every metric.

Even with the best form of political and economic systems, people still will use every resource possible if it makes their life that much more comfortable.

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