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I'm alright Jack!...and isn't this just the problem worldwide. Everyone wants to just have it better for themselves without thinking about the general condition. So I'll just burn some coal and let others worry about the waste products and their effects.
Unlike you, of course, who are so virtuous that you waste nothing and pollute not a whit.
You apparently didn't hear that we're virtually off the grid (THE COAL HOG) and that we burn anthracite, which burns clean.
But who cares? What are you going to do, sic your minions on me?
Off the grid but still on the internet. That coal burning computer must be quite an innovation. Tell us about it.
Is it really too difficult for someone to understand that you can have internet connectivity and not be connected to the power grid at all yourself?
Or is it better to latch onto an opportunity to let the lizard brain run wild in an effort to smash another tribal member's reputation in order to further your own social fitness and inclusion?
In this case, it seems the answer is quite obvious.
Ghawar Is Dying
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. - Dr. Albert Bartlett
Coal will be king and for precisely this reason. Everyone pisses and moans about the kind of world we will leave "for our children and grandchildren", but nobody ever really gives a crap about future generations. When was the last time a meaningful policy was enacted and followed for the sake of "our children and grandchildren"? It's just another aspect of hypocrisy so prevelant today. Say one thing, do another. Then excuse it with "Do as I say, not as I do." Whatever.
When a family is offered the chance to heat their home for an entire winter at a price significanyly less than what they pay now (for oil or gas), it will be game time. Throw in the argument that since China and India are boosting their use of coal, it doesn't matter what we do with respect to the environment, and it's almost a no-brainer.