There is, as often its the cost of improving and saving our lives. The idea that we can both live in a modern world with all the benefits and have no impact on

There is, as often its the cost of improving and saving our lives. The idea that we can both live in a modern world with all the benefits and have no impact on nature is ignoring the cold hard facts. Nature didn't give us a safe and friendly place we made unsafe, it gave us a hostile and deadly environment we made safe through the use of energy and by transforming it into a safer environment for us. Of course we should work on reducing the negative externalities but the positive far outweigh the negative EVEN with something as polluting as coal.