What if the path to ending fossil fuels looked like the fight to end slavery?

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Nov 6, 2025, 10:49 am100 pts
When Britain abolished slavery in its empire in 1833, it paid the equivalent of hundreds of billions today in compensation—not to the enslaved, but to the slave owners. It was an imperfect, morally uneasy compromise, but it helped achieve a historic transition that had seemed impossible.

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