Interesting piece on NPR, “Pandemic Shutdown Is Speeding Up The Collapse Of Coal.” It seems that one small, thin, questionable silver lining of the Covid-19 crisis is that it is accelerating the demise of polluting coal as a fuel. The industries that buy it are shut down for quarantine are using their forced off time…

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When you get a moment, check out this article over on the New York York Review of Books site, A Future Without Fossil Fuels?, by Bill McKibben. In it, McKibben reviews two books, 2020 Vision: Why You Should See the Fossil Fuel Peak Coming by Kingsmill Bond, and A New World: The Geopolitics of the…

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