• Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    Can’t wait to see the articles in 10 years about how major countries are phasing out coal in the next 10-20 years.

    The US still has work to do but have you SEEN the decline in coal use here over the past 15 years? Right now I think the US is back to using the same amount of coal that it did in 1965! As a percentage of energy use it’s at the level it was in 1949!

    Coal use in the United States absolutely fallen off a cliff since 2008.

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      6 months ago

      The optimist in me is pumped about those stats, but the cynical pedantic asshole in me wants to point out >0≠0

      Mostly I was just commenting on the fact that I keep seeing articles every few years about how some country or other has gone back on its promises to cut X by Y percent.

      Thanks for sharing the facts, though! My cynical side needs to see stuff like that to keep it at bay.