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It is a sad day when a politician unironically holds up a lump of coal in parliament and pronounces look how clean it it.
by posnet 10y ago
It is a sad day when a politician unironically holds up a lump of coal in parliament and pronounces look how clean it it.
- kogepathic 10y agoIt also doesn't make any sense, as a number of studies have shown that renewables employ more people per MWh than fossil fuel energy sources like coal. [0] So if the politicians point is that renewables destroy jobs, the evidence does not support this claim. [0] https://web.stanford.edu/group/emf-research/docs/occasional_papers/OP64.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/group/emf-research/docs/occasional_...
- fennecfoxen 10y ago> renewables employ more people per MWh than fossil fuel energy sources like coal. Anyone who suggests that's a feature, and not a defect, is either a fool or has designs on your wallet.
- kogepathic 10y ago> So if the politicians point is that renewables destroy jobs, the evidence does not support this claim. My point isn't that more people employed = cheaper energy. Obviously that's not how economics works. My point was, if politicians are advocating for building out more fossil fuels because renewables "take away jobs" that argument has been proven false. [0] [0] http://fortune.com/2017/02/21/donald-trump-jobs-coal-mining-solar-energy/ http://fortune.com/2017/02/21/donald-trump-jobs-coal-mining-...
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- mirimir 10y agoWell, it did look like anthracite. So yes, not much carbon would have rubbed off on their skin. But still pretty stupid.
- weaksauce 10y agoOr when a politician holds up a snowball in congress unironically to prove climate change is not a concern.
- zardo 10y agoDid he set it on fire?