Sorry, it just took me a minute to understand that you truly believe that China rather import coal from the US, then protect its own mining industry.

Exactly, which is why China is so important. If they even have a fairly small drop in coal consumption, that basically kills US coal exports and therefore the US coal industry.

The total coal exports of the US are like 2% of Chinas coal consumption and the volume of US coal mining is about 10% of what China consumes. It really does not take much to kill that market.

We humans have a natural bias towards negative news so we can protect ourself. It is really important to understand the limits of anybody personally. We are 8billion people. That anybody can single change the world alone is quite frankly impossible and therefore a stupid burden to place on you or anybody else for that matter.

A good point to start is to deliberately filter news. There are two ways of doing that. One is to just ignore certain problems, if you can not do anything about it. Your time is better used for something else. A good point to start is imho to filter out news further away from you. So cut out global news not involving your country, then national news, then state or whatever more local level and then municipality level. It is probably better to be informed about some bike lane being discussed in your city then the civil war in Sudan, since you can actually do something about the bike lane.

The other important part is to limit your news sources to the most useful ones. A good part of that is to go towards more traditional high quality media. They tend to be less emotional and more facts based, which helps. I personally really like business newspapers. They are extremely facts based, as people actually make decisions on what they write, but unfortunately neoliberal. When you feel down stay away from social media. That is designed to make you feel bad. A good way of dealing with that is using the fediverse as it is not for profit and also to subscribe to local groups and accounts, which provide you with actionable news.

Also really important is to just chill sometimes. As in go out have some fun, whatever that might be. Play video games, sports, hiking, music or whatever you like. You will do no good, when you burn out.

Oh also the current large wars, seem to all involve destroying fossil fuel infrastructure. Certainly Ukraine bombs a lot of Russias and both side have hit fossil fuel infrastructure in the current Iran war as well.

Currently China makes up more then half of global consumption. So if they have a fast decline, that can completely destroy the global coal market.

The fact that the Russians have to transport grain from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea, shows just how badly they loose the naval war in the Black Sea.

The period after WW2 was one of two periods in Western Europe, were wealth inequality went down in the last thousand years or so. The other one was the Black Death, when a lot of people died and that lead to worker shortages. Honestly a lot of deaths in WW2 might have also been a big part of why the post war period was so pleasant.

Makes you think about the low fertility rate in a different way.

Safety from a good atmosphere during a game.

Putin has signed the Minsk agreements, when he believed that the war in Ukraine was becoming too hot. Then he believed Western aid would stop and he could just force Ukraine into a peace deal or take all of it. He might still believe that. However there are a few issues with that. Namely Ukraine can survive(not win) without Western aid and in a stronger form the longer this goes on. So Ukraine does not need a cheap peace deal, which they believe to be just a ceasefire(for good reason).

But I am not sure, if Putin knows. He has been hiding for some time now and most of this is not that obvious, if you only get your news from your yes-men.

You mean underdeveloped countries like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and the US? All of them produce much more power using coal then Germany…

The big one is China and then with a massive gap India.

The US mined 410Mt of coal last year, which is obviously not all exported. There are a few countries, which buy coal in meaningful amounts, that such a terminal could make sense.

However the largest potential importer is China and that is falling.

Just bomb Iran to drive up the oil price and then destroy a bunch of nature to profit from that.

Zuckerberg brought a ‘Wingman’: Meta CEO’s $100M yacht support vessel is also docked in Seattle

In his last term Obama tried to be nicer to Cuba and made some deals with them, which included easing on the embargo and embassies.

Xpeng is clearly a Chinese car company though. I am talking about the BMW iX3, Mini Aceman or Cupra Tavascan. All those are European brands and developed by them, but made in Chinese factories and then shipped to the EU. Pretty sure most people would presume they are made in Germany, UK and Spain or so.

This is the first thing they cut. Probably the next thing to come will be jet fuel shortages in small regional airports. Then you would see shortages in the larger city and only after that they will start to military operations.

However this is still great news, as jet fuel is in short supply due to the Hormuz situation. So this means a lot less money for Russia.

This is also the irony with the EU EV market. Most Chinese EVs are from European car companies, but made in China, because it is cheaper.

Batman is a billionaire beating up environmentalists. Sounds pretty MAGA to me.

Do I see it correctly that Ottawa is building a light rail line, which is supposed to end about 1km to the south of this and kind of in the middle of nowhere?