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Sweet giant plants and firestorms that cover the planet making more coal for future generations.

They don't, though; firestorms are the opposite of what you want for coal generation.

Also coal was made in the Carboniferous when there were no wood eating microbes. The lack of creatures digesting wood is gave us coal.

So...no. No silver lining. Or at least not that one.

Most of our coal reserves were deposited as charcoal, after a firestorm.