We’re Burning More Coal Than Ever Thanks to China
www.bloomberg.com
Predictions of declining demand for the world’s most polluting fossil fuel are premature.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/16613982

Coal demand set a record high in 2024, according to the International Energy Agency’s annual report published on Wednesday. Considering the commodity is the most important contributor to global warming, its consumption trends matter enormously for the fight against climate change. The report makes for a depressing reading: The planet is losing to our unquenchable demand for king coal. Forget all the slogans about consigning coal to history. We’re on a path to consigning the planet to history.

Took out the China bit as its just the industrial engine we’ve outsourced our dirtiest emissions too

  • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I seem to recall a factoid about coal power releasing more radioactive waste than nuclear power (maybe per gigawatt?) but that it’s not monitored or counted the same way (like radon being a gas just kind of vanishes)… and that’s on top of all the other poisons it frees.

    • Shortstack@reddthat.com
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      21 hours ago

      Russia doing the world a favor by throwing a huge chunk of their people into the meat grinder