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This Land Is Mined: The Coal Masterclass

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What's the Rank of Coal?

As we reverse this 60 million year long period of coal deposition in, I guess, a few centuries. There's still a lot of coal in the ground, but it's remarkable. And we'll discuss this anthropocene, this geologic period of reversal. We'll discuss why suddenly we are stripping away coal at a rate of approximately a few hundred thousand years of tree growth per year. That's the approximate rate of coal usage at the moment.

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