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Re:Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas price... by wyldfire on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:48PM (#28673030)
> That’s what divesting from coal gets you, more expensive energy.

Only if you ignore its externalities and let someone else pay for them. Coal is wickedly expensive if you consider its costs beyond mining/transportation/storage/combustion.

Re:Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas price... by paganel on Monday September 27, 2021 @01:02PM (#28673235)
I agree, but right now the externalities are also supported by the better-off, as they can also get cancer and what have you from dirtier air, that’s one of the prime reasons for this push. In the new regime almost all the weight falls on the less-off.
Re:Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas price... by kragen on Monday September 27, 2021 @01:09PM (#28673330)
Almost all the cancer falls on the poor, not just because they tend to live closer to power plants (unlike carbon dioxide, CFCs, and even sulfur dioxide, the pollution that causes cancer is fairly localized) and work in coal mines, but because there are more of them.