Coal use to reach new peak – and remain at near-record levels for years

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/18/coal-use-to-reach-new-peak-and-remain-at-near-record-levels-for-years

by Advanced_Drink_8536

3 comments

  1. Not that long ago, nations around the world made common cause and generated and implemented governmental policies to deal with an impending, global catastrophe due to the degeneration of our planet’s ozone layer.

    I know we could do that again with fossil fuels, but I don’t know if we will.

  2. 35 years ago, Margaret Thatcher, easily the most ideologically right wing UK Prime Minister of the post war era, addressed the UN. Her speech highlighted the threat caused by the increase in atmospheric CO2 and she urged international cooperation to prevent catastrophe.

    There was a time when we had the opportunity to deal with this issue but it passed, I think it was the fall of the USSR and the globalisation opportunities that this presented that put it on the backburner as much as anything else.

    The will to deal with climate change is gradually returning but I don’t expect the necessary action to happen before globally catastrophic damage is locked in.

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