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Re:Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia by pjc50 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @05:50AM (#21934363)
Much of Australia's coal is burned in China.

Germany is a literal "black spot" in that the coal industry still has political muscle there, despite Germany's otherwise relatively strong (but still very much minority) green movement.

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Re:Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia by daemin on Thursday January 02, 2020 @06:08AM (#21934446)
They [Germany] got rid of their environmentally friendly nuclear reactors in favour of burning more coal after Fukishima. They're doing a bit of solar but are burning ever more and more coal.
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Re:Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia by cygx on Thursday January 02, 2020 @08:11AM (#21935053)
[Germans] are burning ever more and more coal

We've missed our reduction goals, but reducton did happen (about 20% over the last 15 years, and the decrease has even been monotonic since 2013).

I keep having to correct this on hackernews specifically. I have to wonder, is there some sort of concerted effort to lie about this?

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Re:Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia by nl on Thursday January 02, 2020 @08:51AM (#21935307)
is there some sort of concerted effort to lie about this?

Yeah, there is a strong pro-nuclear group on HN who believe it has unfairly been targeted.

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Re:Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia by daemin on Friday January 03, 2020 @07:13AM (#21945237)
It would still be more now than if the reactors had not been shut down right?

I guess I should not throw stones since both countries I live in are worse than this. Specifically they dig out more and more coal every year without stopping.

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Re:Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia by bjourne on Thursday January 02, 2020 @08:04AM (#21935016)
Germany is burning LESS coal. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-per-capi...
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Re:Wildfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia by pjc50 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @06:43AM (#21934592)
Yeah, this was in my opinion an overreaction. The calculus for building a new reactor (expensive, time consuming) versus keeping an existing one going is very different.

On the other hand, Germany had already experienced the Chernobyl cloud.

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