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False dichotomy. That's not how a significant amount of coal is mined. Yet every windmill sticks up into the air as a reminder of human presence.

• j3097736 10y ago
  >reminder of human presence. Still not as bad as a plastic bottle on the ground.
  • lkbm 10y ago
    I think a better comparison would be smog and acid rain. Coal isn't giving us the plastic bottles, but it does negatively impact us in much subtler yet worse ways than a visual reminder.
  • zhte415 10y ago
    You don't inhale plastic bottles.
    • mavhc 10y ago
      Unless you're a fish
• Sanddancer 10y ago
  The smog generated by burning coal gives the air a rather obnoxious brown tinted reminder of human presence.
• TheOtherHobbes 10y ago
  If you think really coal pollution is invisible, try visiting China - which, perhaps not coincidentally, is currently rushing headlong towards a fully renewable economy.
  • hueving 10y ago
    What? I'm talking about a bad generalization made about mining, not coal pollution.