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PurpleCounter1358 t1_j5xaxnk wrote

Reply to comment by raff7 in [OC] Gobal CO2 emission per income group 1750-2021 by albymana

They figured out how to use coal to get even richer, lower class people mostly burned wood, which is similar enough to the natural carbon cycle that it doesn't add net CO2 to the atmosphere. Like breathing, not a big deal.

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raff7 t1_j5xur1z wrote

While coal for heating was used for thousands of years, and was not necessarily exclusive to very wealthy people, the cosa usage by rich people started really to take off during the Industrial Revolution, around the mid 19th century..

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PurpleCounter1358 t1_j5z7r43 wrote

Ya, apparently people have burned coal for longer than I realized, but the industrial revolution was when fossil fuel usage took off.

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