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In reply to the discussion: 'I think Trump needs to show his face': Laid-off miners losing faith... [View all]Botany
(70,501 posts).... ground by what years ago had been a coal shoot @ a home in Columbus, OH about 10 or
15 years ago. Dad was the oldest son but too young for WW II and his house had a coal
furnace in Dayton, OH so his job was to stoke the furnace in the AM and then clean it out
in the PM and then add more coal for the night. My Dad looked at that piece of coal w/disgust
and he said that in 1945 or 46 when they switched from coal to natural gas was one of the
best things ever. He had zero romantic feelings for "the good old days."
I went to Harvard on the Hocking, aka Ohio U and I saw 1st hand that coal kills. It kills the
environment, it poisons the lakes and rivers miles away w/acid rain, it can and does kill or
cripples the miners, it scars the land, it leaves AMD (acid mine drainage) for generations,
it hardens the people who work with it and live around it, and helps to kill the supportive
capacity of the environment with green house gases.
Outside of its use in metallurgy it needs to be left in the ground.
BTW under Obama for the 1st time in 30 to 40 years the streams in S.E. OH that ran red
or blue (free acid) because of AMD they started getting clean up ... Trump scrapped that
program.
sorry to