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This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment.

Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.

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We’re Burning More Coal Than Ever (www.bloomberg.com)

submitted 4 months ago by hanrahan@slrpnk.net to c/collapse@lemm.ee

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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

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The new plan is population control with WW3 in 2027.

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 0 points 4 months ago

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

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months 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.