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by asah 1457 days ago
Easy for us to say, it's not our jobs being lost.

If we really cared about getting this done, we'd simply pay ~$30B/year (0.14%) to enter a contract to buyout 100% of US coal production, and avoid it getting burned.

The problem is that China would simply replace that production, netting zero for the environment.