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>>geox+(OP)
Hopefully next we can help fix mercury in fish, the number one contributor right now is burning coal. Seems like it would be a easy decision.

>>russdi+Jb
Not with Captain Planet tier cartoon villains in power.

>>dyausp+2v
you mean like the german environmentalists who singlehandedly kicked up german atmospheric mercury emissions?

>>dnauti+xx1
Can you identify when exactly the German environmentalists did this thing you refer to? I'm assuming it's something coal related.

Total and per capita coal usage for Germany and a few other peer nations:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-by-count...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-per-capi...

I can see a bump in early 1980s but I see the same in other nations, possibly a response to oil embargoes, possibly just economic growth.

>>ZeroGr+7A1
Arguably Germany should have turned off a few lignite plants and kept their nuclear power a little bit longer.