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> Per capita, Germany uses far less coal It would be great if globabl warming were per capita, too. > This blip has received an overwhelming amount of attenti
by shakow 4y ago
> Per capita, Germany uses far less coal
It would be great if globabl warming were per capita, too.
> This blip has received an overwhelming amount of attention given that it was relatively small, lasted a few years and coal usage started diving again in 2014.
That's the whole problem, that it stayed a ‶blip″ instead of becoming the foot of a growing curve. No one said that Germany was 80% carbon-free then, only that they nipped in the bud any chance of decreasing their carbon production for the last decade.
> a potential nuclear disaster
Is that much worse than the actual half-a-century running disaster?
https://www.euractiv.com/section/air-pollution/news/german-coal-plant-exposed-as-europes-single-worst-air-polluter/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/air-pollution/news/german-c...
https://climateanalytics.org/briefings/about-80-of-eu-and-german-virtually-all-polish-coal-plants-non-compliant-with-new-eu-2021-air-pollution-regulations/ https://climateanalytics.org/briefings/about-80-of-eu-and-ge...
https://www.dw.com/en/coal-fired-plants-cause-huge-health-bill-in-europe/a-16656805 https://www.dw.com/en/coal-fired-plants-cause-huge-health-bi...
https://beyond-coal.eu/last-gasp/ https://beyond-coal.eu/last-gasp/