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you mean like the german environmentalists who singlehandedly kicked up german atmospheric mercury emissions?

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>>dnauti+(OP)
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:

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.

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>>ZeroGr+A2
Arguably Germany should have turned off a few lignite plants and kept their nuclear power a little bit longer.