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The UK is about to stop producing any electricity from burning coal - ending its 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel.

The country's last coal power station, at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, finishes operations on Monday after running since 1967.

This marks a major milestone in the country's ambitions to reduce its contribution to climate change. Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel producing the most greenhouse gases when burnt.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

Quite a change from a country that once had coal-based smog so bad that it was a literal disaster with massive health consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London

My dad lived through it. He said you would put a handkerchief over your mouth when you went outside and when you got to where you were going, it would be black.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

Won't somebody think of the children who yearn for the mines?

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

They can go work in the Lithium mines now.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

At least they'll be so happy on the day they find their friends (they're in their heads)

[-] foiledAgain@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

What's in Your head? In Your heaead?

[-] LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

They'll be so ugly though. I guess it's ok, cos who needs mirrors anyways.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

I wonder what’s going to happen to those moths that evolved to be black when England was nothing but smog and misery. Will they evolve to look like Brexit supporters surprised by what everyone told them would happen?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

About fucking time.

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

on Monday

So today? Or in a week?

[-] notastatist@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Monday next decade.

[-] insufferableninja@lemdro.id -2 points 1 day ago

terrible headline. good news.

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