A town in Pennsylvania was rendered uninhabitable due to a coal mine fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

A town in Pennsylvania was rendered uninhabitable due to a coal mine fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania There are also plenty of cities that remain populated despite immense pollution, because of no economic alternatives. For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norilsk#Pollution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norilsk#Pollution Hydroelectricity also renders large areas of land uninhabitable due to submersion. Granted, that's a deliberate and planned event. But collapse of dams have displaced tens of millions of people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure