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I may be wrong here but coal mining in itself does not contribute a hell of a lot to climate change however a lot of places have reached a conclusion that a pristine environment attracts more tourist dollars than a bloody great hole in the ground especially when you add in the the amount of pollution a coal fired power plant produces.
I think (and hope) that development will continue with coal systems in order to make them more environmentally palatable in the future as coal is one of the few resources we still have in abundance but at this stage I don't think too many people want to see a skyline defined by chimney stacks burning coal.
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld |