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Originally Posted by saltwn
What part should I disagree with ?
Loretta Lynn's father died of the black lung. Where do you think that came from? Hint: there was a movie called "Coal Miner?"s Daughter" 
As for oil -hell yes it makes us sick! I wish you could have breathed some air that wasn't polluted. Maybe you wouldn't have this all wrong.
Live near a refinery for a year. See if you don't break out in a rash, get bad headaches, frequent conjunctivitis. Better yet, drink the water near a refinery.
Bet you don't let your dog drink out of a nearby ditch.
Yes. Coal makes us sick. And so does the oil refining process. |
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an editorial I've recently read as a rebuttal to your statement "Yes. Coal makes us sick. And so does the oil refining process."...
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Funny thing about coal and oil. Before they began transforming Americans' everyday lives by providing electricity and transport that didn't require a horse, average citizens trudged though life with mouths half-full of teeth, fortunate to live past age 40. Far from making us sick, they've powered advances that have extended the country's collective life expectancy to about 80, helped eliminate hard-core poverty and made us the wealthiest nation in the history of the planet.
Today, coal still provides half the country's electricity -- power that allows Las Vegas air conditioners to run 24 hours per day during the soul-searing heat of July, power that lets partygoers enjoy the city's luxuries at all times. And how did they -- and the foodstuffs they ate for breakfast -- get to this otherwise uninhabitable tourist outpost? They drove or flew here on a tank of fossil fuel.
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In other words, it's simply foolish to say something makes you sick for 5 reasons when without it the reasons for being sick skyrocket into the hundreds...
It's like saying a vaccine which will save 10,000 lives will kill 15, so we shouldn't do it...
