Coal IS immoral, and you don't even have to bring climate change into it. The US coal industry was built by exploiting the poor in Appalachia, from the beginnin

Coal IS immoral, and you don't even have to bring climate change into it. The US coal industry was built by exploiting the poor in Appalachia, from the beginning all the way until today, and then taking all the wealth out of the area and leaving us with nothing. Things I'd like to see talked about? That the largest armed uprisings on American soil since the Civil War were the coal wars in West Virginia in the early 20th century. Coal unions fighting for better than what the coal mine companies, with the backing of local police and sometimes the US military, told them they were just lucky to have. And that of the 900 clean-up workers at the 2008 Kingston fly ash spill, 30 are dead and 250 are dying because they were refused to gear and fired if they brought their own, because if they wore so much as a dust mask, the neighbors might suspect that maybe the largest environmental disaster in US history wasn't as non-toxic as the TVA tried to pretend it was. It will still be years until those people get a dime of compensation. So many places in Appalachia with poisoned water, polluted air, no futures, and no prospects. Cheap energy tho amirite