{"id":18601,"date":"2025-06-12T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T04:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/?p=18601"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T04:38:51","slug":"but-there-is-still-some-more-coal-that-we-can-dig-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/but-there-is-still-some-more-coal-that-we-can-dig-up\/","title":{"rendered":"But there is still some more coal that we can dig up."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"18601\" class=\"elementor elementor-18601\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d1ff562 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d1ff562\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-61b14b6\" data-id=\"61b14b6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb0e8c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bb0e8c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>I drew this in response to the announcement of the approval of three massive new coalmines in Australia.\u00a0 Note that I am not totally against coal mining. Afterall, high quality black coal is needed to make steel and existing coal fired power stations have to keep running until renewables can take up the slack.\u00a0 But if the climate scientists\u2019 predictions about global warming are correct most of the coal yet to be mined will have to stay in the ground.\u00a0 Opening yet more coalmines does not make sense to me.<\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e06f5e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e06f5e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>CARTOON REFERENCE NUMBER:\u00a0 2025-22<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drew this in response to the announcement of the approval of three massive new coalmines in Australia.\u00a0 Note that I am not totally against coal mining. 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