How about in China?
"China's top ten electric companies, which supplied almost 60 percent of China's total electricity last year, burned 20 percent of China's coal and emitted the equivalent of 1.44 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide," Guardian.co.uk says
How long have we been making electricity with coal? Oh really? Not more than a couple hundred years? Out of thousands.....?? Amazing, the destruction, caused by so small a section of history.
And they have known how dangerous it was since.....when?
"1891 Congress passed the first federal law to improve safety in mines. The law required ventilation in mines and made it illegal for companies to hire children under 12 years old to work in mines."-EIA
Coal miners- 1910
Check out this article in a newspaper from 1950. Unbelievable!
So years later they said forget mines! We'll just blow up the whole mountain instead!! Problem,
er, solved? Coal. I mean really.
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