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The big thing that’s happening is that while North America and Europe are cutting coal use, third world use coal-burning is increasing even faster.
At least until theres not enough survivors to operate and maintain the infrastructure to extract coal. At one point everyone is going to look around and realize society can’t operate anymore and that will be that.
We will probably be underground at that point… burning “clean coal”