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Why has the world started to mine coal again? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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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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[+] -11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's just nuclear phobia.

It's literally the second safest form of energy production we have only behind solar.

It's literally safer than wind power.

Yeah there's been a few disasters with older reactor designs or reactors that were put where they shouldn't have been, but even with those it's still incredibly safe.

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