Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Even a lot of the coal we mine these days wouldn’t be accessible to a pre-industrial civilization. You need to walk before you run, and to walk you need some coal that’s close to the surface — it’s an independent non-climate reason to “leave it in the ground.” — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 8, 2022 Hibernated

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The Industrial Revolution depended on access to coal. And even though we have lots of other ways of making electricity today, it doesn’t seem like you could make a photovoltaic panel or other modern power sources unless you already had industrial technology. — PolitiTweet.org

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A lot of conventional arguments either go “fossil fuels are really good so we should burn them” or “no they’re bad so we shouldn’t.” But the long term view suggests a reason not to burn them *because* they are good. Anyways, buy the book! https://t.co/N5sdb8dqRm — PolitiTweet.org

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