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Burning coal is a huge and easy win. Artisinal and small scale gold mining should be high on the list too, even though it's a much harder problem: https://www.
by MengerSponge 8mo ago
Burning coal is a huge and easy win. Artisinal and small scale gold mining should be high on the list too, even though it's a much harder problem:
https://www.unep.org/globalmercurypartnership/what-we-do/artisanal-and-small-scale-gold-mining-asgm https://www.unep.org/globalmercurypartnership/what-we-do/art...
- Paracompact 8mo agoYou do mean banning rather than burning, right?
- empyrrhicist 8mo agoI think they meant [Targeting the] burning [of] coal.
- hydrox24 8mo agoI'm skeptical that it's easier. On the numbers alone, artisanal and small scale gold mining (apparently) accounts for 15-20% of global gold production. But coal accounts for 35% of total electricity generation.