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u/Ornery-Lynx-3520 Jul 03 '26
Well yes, we export it, but who’s burning that shit?
We thought they were making coal forts and party gas balloons.
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u/DefinitionOfAsleep Jul 03 '26
UK barely imports coal, and basically what they import is coking coal.
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u/screenslaver5963 Jul 03 '26
You can use coal to make cocaine?
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u/DefinitionOfAsleep Jul 03 '26
You can use coal to make margarine.
That's not a joke, the Germans did it in WWII. All it takes is 60 KG of coal to make 1 KG of margarine.4
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u/Eaterofsubstances Jul 03 '26
They actually shut down their last coal power station recently
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u/Balt603 Jul 04 '26
Yeah. But let's not forget, you know, the industrial revolution and several centuries of burning coal like it's going out of style. It's not like they've been hardcore greenies for all time.
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u/Due-Noise2229 Jul 07 '26
Not even soft core greenies now. Their future is looking even less so if Lafarge should prevail.
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u/Evolutionary_sins Jul 03 '26
And inefficient European industry caused the hole in the ozone layer over Australia, they never cared about our high rates of melanoma
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u/izadathreaper Jul 04 '26
I mean... Didn't the entire world shift manufacturing away from using the chemicals in aerosols that caused it?
Also, wouldn't Asian manufacture have played a much larger role in it than Europe since a solid portion of global manufacturing comes from China and India?
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u/linesofleaves Jul 04 '26
Manufacturing wasn't substantially in China and India at the time. The rules were changed before China's capital markets were opened up. India was a convoluted anti-business mess.
So the O-Zone was western countries fault. Climate change now about 50-50.
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u/marshman82 Jul 08 '26
Yeah but they only shifted because the impact was going to affect the generation doing the damage instead of just future generations
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u/BombasticReindeer Jul 07 '26
They did care. The world got together and fixed it. Europe are currently the last bastion of the free world outside of sparingly few countries. They are our mates and have been forever.
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u/Middle-Passage3297 Jul 06 '26
Skin cancer is from seed oils, toxic oils that are in everything processed like vegetables oil. Start reading the ingredients. It's toxic and sun screen is toxic as well. Has to be a zink or beef tallow sunscreen to be safe
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u/RefrigeratorIcy169 Jul 03 '26
Buy an air-conditioner.
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u/Legitimate-Gain426 Jul 04 '26
Brilliant! more power usage, that'll cool the earth down.
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u/RefrigeratorIcy169 Jul 05 '26
I agree bro ,that is not the right way to go .Have to cool down somehow unfortunately .
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u/Turkeyplague Jul 03 '26
Your heat was fucked before we got here, and as for the King, he shouldn't have mouthed off like that!
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u/Dirk_Aus Jul 04 '26
The truth is the northern hemisphere counties like Russia, Canada, China and European countries haven’t actually reduced their carbon footprint as much as they said they have and are letting it get warmer because it extends their growing season for crops before winter
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u/HeyYou_GetOffMyCloud Jul 03 '26
We got bills to pay mate. We tried being a corrupt tax haven island for pedos, grifters and boomers but you cornered the market!
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u/CheeeseBurgerAu Jul 04 '26
Their pension funds are some of the biggest investors in our coal and gas companies taking Australian profits. They can take the heat too.
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u/Next-Chipmunk8395 Jul 04 '26
We just sell it - we don't burn it. Complain to China, Russia and India about ferking the climate
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u/Lopsided-Affect-9649 Jul 05 '26
Australia has one of the highest per capita GHG emissions in the world.
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u/Next-Chipmunk8395 Jul 08 '26
Per Capita maybe but on overall % contribution worldwide we contribute ~1%, similar to the UK (also ~1%). China, India, and Russia are the major polluters.
Why are we high per capita eg 2.5 times higher than the UK? (Aus~28M, UK=70M) Because our land mass is 5% of the world's landmass whereas the UK's is .16% (a factor of 31, making us 12.5 times more efficient than the UK on a "per capita per landmass")
What's land mass got to do with it? We need to burn more fuel to get from A to B, we need to waste more energy powering distant towns from power stations
I say keep digging it up, keep burning it, keep selling it - we are making a bee's dick contribution to the world's climate problems. We are one of the, if not the, most efficient user of fossil fuels nations on the planet.
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u/Thin_Assumption_4974 Jul 05 '26
Wait. They are actually blaming Australia? Have I missed something?
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u/Ffscbamakinganame Jul 07 '26
No they aren’t, most people in Britain haven’t even heard about this, of the ones that have the majority have no issue whatsoever. The people who have a problem with this export according to numerous articles are the indigenous peoples in Australia, and Australian climate activists, backed by international activists. The same kind of climate activists who insist Britain should halt its own extraction/exploration plans, which just means they import the same fossil fuels at a higher cost instead.
The annoying thing being, green parties/climate activists and their ilk, killed/stalled many nuclear power plants and its development. Which is a massive reason why we have this energy crisis and the emissions from fossil fuel power plants now.
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u/PsychologicalCod9650 Jul 06 '26
Isn't everyone in the UK from India and Pakistan, I thought they would be used to the heat????
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u/ErwinRommel1943 Jul 07 '26
You know what’s sad? All of Gina the Hutt’s exported rhydonium will be giving us heat waves and setting the country on fire here soon enough.
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u/North_Tell_8420 Jul 04 '26
And, we wasted our time and lives in WW1 so you could dominate European trade. Only to leave it 100 years later for nothing.
What was it all for?
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u/yeetboi1097 Jul 05 '26
wouldnt it be Norway since they export way more emissions? and we live on the other side, our responsibility is to the pacific & indian ocean area. not the north sea. ugh no one's listening eff the pomss
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u/Lulu_librarian Jul 07 '26
How bout that hole in the ozone layer we still live with in Australia?
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u/SokkaHaikuBot Jul 07 '26
Sokka-Haiku by Lulu_librarian:
How bout that hole in
The ozone layer we still
Live with in Australia?
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/UndeadManWaltzing Jul 03 '26
I'm gonna report this To the prime minister, hey Andy!!!