• Uphillbothways@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not that they didn’t know what would happen to us.
    It’s that they didn’t care what would happen to us.

    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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      CO2 is 72.7% oxygen by weight, and 27.3% carbon. 2kg is 28.5% of 7kg, so with rounding it works out even if that is assuming that the coal has no impurities - it may be closer to 6kg but essentially it takes oxygen from the air and adds it to the carbon in the coal to form CO2

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    Exxon knew it as early as 1957. We’re not going to stop burning fossil fuels unless the whole system collapses.

  • Koike@lemmy.world
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    Politics last two decades acting all surprised when scientist and ecologist been telling them for more than a century… Silver lining is they won’t be lying for another century if they keep ignoring the issue, we’d all be dead