Rogowiec, Poland
Smoke and steam billow from Bełchatów power station, Europe’s largest coal-fired power plant powered by lignite, operated by the Polish company PGE
The science and politics behind the world’s most controversial resource. Without oil, there would be no globalisation, no plastic, little transport, and a global political landscape that few would recognise. It is the lifeblood of the modern world, and humanity’s dependence upon it looks set to continue for decades to come.
> Those who caused the #climatecrisis should help #Africa harness its wind and sun, says Vanessa Nakate, a #UN Unicef goodwill ambassador climate activist
The hashtag #fossilfuels works… but it doesn’t work as well as being in mastodon.energy/public/local were things without hashtags exist and all the content is topical.
Some want us to believe that #GlobalWarming somehow only recently came into the mainstream. This is false and easy to prove. Here's two screenshots from Mobile Police Patlabor, an #anime from 1988 which I watched as a kid.
We knew, everybody knew. It's just that the #FossilFuels industry lobbied hard for politicians to look the other way.
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (www.bbc.co.uk)
Edit: they published some transphobic shit: thepinknews.com/…/ilga-europe-transphobia-uk-bbc/