The UK celebrated Oct. 1 as the first day in nearly 150 years when its power plants didn’t burn a single lump of coal to generate electricity. The moment was hailed by politicians as a sign of the progress against fossil fuels. It was also completely irrelevant.
The very same day the UK went without coal-fired electricity, the world burned roughly 24 million metric tons of coal. Let me put the statistics into perspective: The world consumed on Oct. 1 in one single day nearly five times more of the rock than Britain used during the whole of 2023. Yes, five times more in one day ...
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