Scale! You talk about scale of destruction but you support coal?
You clearly have no idea about the true scale of the destruction that coal has caused.
The latest breakthrough of solid state batteries uses no rare earths so those poor Chinese workers will be out of work and can slowly choke on the filth from your coal instead.
COAL
It kills 24,000 people a year in the US alone.
Coal particulates pollution cause approximately one million deaths annually across the world.
It contaminates ground water and rivers.
The acidic waste can pollute for thousands of years.
Approximately 20 toxic-release chemicals, including arsenic, lead, mercury, nickel, vanadium, beryllium, cadmium, barium, chromium, copper, molybdenum, zinc, selenium and radium.
Coal seam fires may burn underground for decades.
