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 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
Won't somebody think of the children who yearn for the mines?
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
They can go work in the Lithium mines now.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
At least they'll be so happy on the day they find their friends (they're in their heads)
foiledAgain@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Zombie?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
What's in Your head? In Your heaead?
LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y
They'll be so ugly though. I guess it's ok, cos who needs mirrors anyways.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
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?
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
About fucking time.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
So today? Or in a week?
notastatist@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y
Monday next decade.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yes.
insufferableninja@lemdro.id · -2 pts · 1y
terrible headline. good news.
MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 1y
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