• Shirasho
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    2011 months ago

    I’ll believe it when it actually happens. Until then it is platitudes as usual.

    • IninewCrow
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      511 months ago

      Laughing? It sounded more like uncontrollable hacking and coughing … I saw a guy wheeze so hard he turned blue.

  • Hyggyldy
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    911 months ago

    Without major reforms to how politicians can get money this is just a bunch of rich people jerking off. We will never be free of coal and oil when our politicians are all sold in the dollar store.

    • @MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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      511 months ago

      If the alternatives are cheaper then it will change. Coal is mostly used to produce electricity, so when solar and wind can compete they will start lobbying as well against coal as a competitor. Combined with citizens working towards and end of it, that can really change something. That is also true for things like evs and oil, gas heating and heat pumps and so forth.

      • Sonori
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        311 months ago

        Except money is not the only factor. Solar and Wind may be cheaper, but they are paid for upfront while oil and gas are effectively subscription based. Nations and companies like having the ability to cut off and sanction poorer country’s power grid for instance, since even just the threat of it can keep them from doing anything too radical. While it may be a factor in politics, i really don’t see OPEC and the executives of major oil companies letting go of that power lightly.

  • @lntl@lemmy.ml
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    811 months ago

    No date was given for when the existing plants would have to go…

    Unless legislation is passed, it’s bullshit.

  • @huginn@feddit.it
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    511 months ago

    This is just the international commitment: internally the US was committed to passing off by 2035.

    Which is fucking insane. We should be off coal by 2024.

    • @neanderthal@lemmy.world
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      111 months ago

      That is less than 30 days away. I’m not sure how you expect that to happen? A realistic goal would be to have a global decline in coal usage by 2025.