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What harm could one coal mine do? Plenty – 1.7 million Hiroshima bombs of heat for starters (theconversation.com)

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[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

To be honest, I won't double check that at all, but will just assume you put at least 10 minutes of effort into this.

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