• @kokopelli
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    29 months ago

    Germany’s brown coal mines are so dumb. Seems like a US thing to do tbh

    • They have a long history. It is also understandable originally as the goal was to achieve a certain level of energy independence in the cold war era (on both sides of the wall). But as that they are relicts of a time long past. We have the means to achieve high energy independence through renewables and every year the mines and coal plants run longer, the damage to the environment is increasing exponentially.