I came across a decent anti-coal video
here that gives a quick summary of the some of the damages done during the coal life cycle and includes some powerful photos of coal industry destruction. Please pass it on.
PS: I often hear the frustrated retort that these sorts of videos only tell one side of the story. So, here's the other side - a few thousand coal miners in economically depressed areas get paid decent wages to obliterate the landscape, a few coal industry big boys get real rich obliterating the landscape, coal counties get tax money and we all get real cheap electricity to waste. The "other side" can be summed up in one word - money. So what's more important to you, money or life? Basically it's like arguing that a video saying we shouldn't beat up homeless people for fun only tells one side of the story. Yea, that's because that's the only side that needs to be told. It's wrong. It needs to stop. End of story.
Or, imagine if all the rapists in the world got together, hired a marketing firm, bought a bunch of advertising, and demanded that their side of the story be told. Would that make it worth listening to?
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