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The World Coal Association's reserve estimate contradicted Rutledge's ceiling
A clash over how much coal remains: two estimates put the planet’s remaining coal at very different ceilings, and the stakes are global.
The World Coal Association's reserve estimate contradicted Rutledge's ceiling
In this episode, we outline competing estimates of how much coal humanity can still extract and why that disagreement matters for policy, emissions, and infrastructure. We follow evidence from Britain’s full coal lifecycle to China and India’s modern expansion to ask: which map will planners trust?
Person: William Stanley Jevons
Date: Britain coal peak 1913
Location: China and…
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