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Coal is Extremely Dumb (by Hank Green) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by turdas@suppo.fi to c/energy@slrpnk.net

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Interesting video by Hank Green about all the ways coal is bad, addressing many of the false claims of the coal lobby.

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[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Alec from Technology Connections also has similarly themed video: https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Great video. His talk at the end was great.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, seeing him going there just shows how bad it got.

Also reciting declaration of Independence is a reminder that's what happening now is exactly what pushed founders to start a revolution.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

We’re trying to trap carbon underground to keep earth habitable and stable for humans. Coal is trapped carbon. We should keep it trapped instead of exposing it to our atmosphere.

[–] 5715@feddit.org 13 points 3 weeks ago

Nice rant.

Every time this topic pops up, Climate Town's compilation of US-presidents, plural, trying to reanimate the coal power corpse with necromantic 'clean coal'-chants lives rentfree in my head.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You guys still use coal? Fucking hell...

[–] bassad@jlai.lu 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Coal is cheap and easily available, I'm not surprised it is still one of the main source of energy

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

Watch the video - it isn't.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What a confusing video. Halfway through, he starts talking about some online shop and at the end, he plays some online game, neither of which seems to have anything to do with the topic...?

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 5 points 3 weeks ago

The online shop thing is just usual YouTube sponsor stuff (though it's more self-promotion since he runs the store, it's some charity thing), and he sometimes plays Connections at the end of vlog videos like this.