Things you should know: There could be a Chernobyl type nuclear meltdown per year, every year...

[TheWraith]

And it still wouldn't kill 1/20th the number of people who are killed every year worldwide by coal-fired electricity. Here in the US, that latter number is estimated to be 40,000 to 50,000 people a year who are prematurely dead thanks to coal.

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2009/2009-11-18-091.html

Across the world, more than 170,000 die every year from coal-related causes.

http://green-blog.org/2008/06/14/pollutants-from-coal-based-electricity-generation-kill-170000-people-annually/

You could have 9/11, every month, and it wouldn't kill as many people as die in the US from coal-related diseases.

In China, anywhere from 6,000 to 20,000 miners a year are killed digging coal out of the ground; if they're that careless with simply physical safety, what do you think they're doing about pollution controls?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining

Coal fired electricity kills more Americans than guns, fires, and falls PUT TOGETHER. Every single year.

[TheWraith]

1. And apparently, nobody here cares one whit about coal.

[Capitalocracy]

2. Recced to zero.

:shrug:

[spanone]

3. ahh, but now we have 'clean coal'

that's how stupid they think the american people are......