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[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 29 points 3 days ago

Can blow some MFers mind when you tell them trees took Earth by surprise and were so new that they didn't rot. Trees just fell over and stayed there forever, well ... until they got turned into oil.

[-] Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago

☝️🤓 Trees turned to coal. Oil came from plankton and marine life.

[-] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

So coal is just charcoal very well aged?

[-] diaphanous@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

The first trees also caused climate change by absorbing a lot of CO2 from the atmosphere. And now the burning of those same trees is causing a second round.

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