The unlikely alliance helping Poland ditch coal

[@dawidl548]

Poland is not the biggest polluter in EU. Look at Eurostat. Poland is not even in the top 5. Rich West is still using coal in huge quantities but they still blame smaller and poorer countries of the East for all the pollution. Poles will use coal for the next few decades because is is the cheapest. Most people in Poland and other eastern european countries earn very little. These people cannot afford expensive renewable energy. If you like or not.

[@JohnSmith-mc2zz]

polland is no 5 in carbon emissions. the type of pollution they're talking about is that which harms your lungs.

[@deathbyyoutube]

Well done girls and miners - at last, a just transition in the making 👏

[@CatatonicImperfect]

What an unexpectedly hopeful and heartwarming story

[@raenico5285]

I needed this story today. German activists could learn a thing or two from their Polish counterparts about winning people for your cause

[@Rudelherz]

Yes, also Germans in general should learn from their Polish neighbors.

[@invisiblehandofadamsmith]

Thank you Poland from 🇬🇧 for your support to Ukraine

[@redneck4161]

And where was your support when we needed it in 1939?

[@skotnica93]

You thanks mean about as much as the dirt under my shoe.

[@sakaripeltola9072]

Poland does not have to give up coal for another hundred years! It is enough to build large heating plants from which the heat is distributed as district heating around the cities! Those new thermal power plants use flue gas cleaning systems that remove sulfur from the smoke, in the desulfurization plant, and all the ash, which is called fly ash in those power plants! Nitrogen can also be removed from the flue gases, in nitrogen cleaning plants that are used in all, for example, Finnish coal-fired power plants, and the chimneys of the plants can be up to 150 meters high, meaning that even the last harmful smoke flies far and wide and the air is completely clean in those cities where the latest technology is used, such as in Finland!

[@academicresearch2280]

Great journalism.

[@susanwestern6434]

Sounds like the end of mining in the UK.

[@patrick247two]

Thank you.

[@Ian-nl9yd]

Not if Germany has anything to say about it...

[@tomeks3951]

They can just learn to code.

[@KoRbA2310]

or get trained to install photovoltaics

[@Elreypablo]

food for thought

[@nemtudom5074]

0:20 *Says person who's about to die at age 35*

[@nemtudom5074]

4:44 The issue is that neither the Polish, nor the Hungarian government does 'discussions' In reality, behind closed doors, its their way or the highway. Everything else is irrelevant.

[@ogurenedebaki2044]

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