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Germany is still on coal too. They’re planning to shut them down by 2038... Rich country or not, people want cheap electricity and until fracking unlocked chea

• makomk 7y ago
  Germany is using brown coal or lignite, too, which is a lot nastier in every respect than the black coal we more usually think of. It produces more air pollution of every kind including CO2 to generate the same amount of power. They're also gradually destroying one of their few remaining ancient forests to strip-mine the land beneath it for lignite.