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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by goatsi on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:16AM (#23474458)
Ironically Germany removed a significant amount of forest to create those open pit coal mines.
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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by MauranKilom on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @03:06AM (#23474712)
I'd be curious what the dimensions here are. Surely a few km squares of strip mines isn't going to make a dent in the forested area?

I mean, yeah, it's slightly ironic, but is it not irrelevant?

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