Clean energy critics often argue that addressing climate change will require too much mining.

So I looked into the data.

I found that our current fossil fuel economy requires 535x more mining than a 100% clean energy economy would.

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— Michael Thomas (@curious_founder) March 29, 2023

That’s about what I’d calculated too. I thought it’d be around 700x as much mining, which was not bad for the five minutes I spent on it a few months ago.