r/worldnews - Thanks to COVID-19, emissions and coal use may have peaked in 2019. A sharp drop in energy demand caused by the global response to the coronavirus pandemic will remove 2.5 years of energy sector emissions between now and 2050.

People thought this would be hard, but all it took was a global pandemic, the collapse of the economy and the slow death of capitalism. And yet the hard part is ahead, we still have a lot of work to do.

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