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by goatsi 2197 days ago
Ironically Germany removed a significant amount of forest to create those open pit coal mines.
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I'd be curious what the dimensions here are. Surely a few km squares of strip mines isn't going to make a dent in the forested area?

I mean, yeah, it's slightly ironic, but is it not irrelevant?