There’s a recent video from Hank Green outlining the very compelling argument for abandoning coal power in strictly economic terms. It turns out that even if you ignore the big picture environmental impacts like global warming and acid rain, and you also ignore the localized impacts like air pollution and chemical waste, and you ignore the other negative externalities like long term health effects on the workers, then coal is still hard to justify because natural gas plants are simply more profitable.
Not to say that we should be ignoring any of those things, but just to make a point about how impossible it is to make a good faith argument for coal in today’s world.
It’s just a bad fuel in every way. This administration is trying to coerce us to use it
As someone who grew up in a mining town I cannot wrap my head around how anyone would want it back. (Money, ofc.)
We grew up playing in dead, bright orange sulfur creeks that are just now beginning to heal 40 years later.
We watched our community die from black lung.
The streets and homes were filthy with black dust.
Fuck coal.
This little guy looks like he’d be introduced to me by Troy McClure.
I thought it was a South Park bit.
Can you imagine a world without coal, Jimmy?
Remember when they made Joe Camel illegal because it was appealing to kids, good times
Joe Camel was just fucking weird. And what the fuck was Grimace?
There are a few theories on Grimace. He is either physical manifestation of a milkshake headache or an anthropomorphic taste bud.
South park needs to make a episode about this
PLEASE
John Oliver will probably abuse it in some way. Sadly he doesn’t start until the 15th and something new and horrible will have replaced this.
Kimmel had a pretty good roast of it but it’s already such a sad satire of itself it was barely necessary
Now, people are gonna say this is meant to brain-wash children.
But you see, the lead-brained troglodyte, drooling demented dumb fuck boomer generation that has gleefully and passionately supported Trump through racism and child rape, are cognitively declining at record setting rates.
This is for them, to be pur on their TVs they don’t know how to use so they can stare at it all slack jawed and stupid while they murmur under their breath and slowly clap their hands together before they have the good graces to finally liberate this planet from their presence already.
Ever see one of the arguments on Facebook about removing lead in aviation fuel?
Half of the comments unintentionally demonstrate why removing lead is a good idea. It’s really amusing, or would be if it wasn’t so sad. “The lead is distributed over a wide area! It’s not a problem!”
And aviation fuel is not even taxed usually :/ we are so dumb. Meanwhile so many dismantled train and tram tracks all over
I assume there’s a cartoon where they burn him?
Weighted companion coal
Yeah, just google “Coalie rule 34”
The utterly ludicrous and comical contradiction of having an unsustainable mascot never even crossed their mind.
If course it’s also low effort ai slop
They’re just fucking with us now.
It’s like a joke from The Simpsons for crying out loud
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Is that trump with the green goblin?
just waiting for the coalie labubu
