Not exact matches
I know some here will decry that I am not talking about the issues because I do not try to obsfuscate with a discussion of the spot market price of coal vs long - term contracts, or use of coal in locations
other than Kansas, or Al Gore's footprint, but the issue of Global Warming IS politics (non-ratification of Kyoto and negative flag - waving ads about politicians who oppose coal), it IS public relations («
Clean Coal»,
cleanest coal - fired plants, surface mining and mountain - top reoval rather
than strip mining, etc.), and it IS about misrepresentation (Peobody framing the debate as coal vs NG when it is really coal vs every
other energy source), and it IS about greed (the coal industry doing everything it can to scuttle every
other energy
alternative).
Alternative energy is a joke, which doesn't take into account anything
other than the fact that they burn
clean as the so - called environmentalists want to believe that the only problem that exists today is global warming (nevermind the
other problems exist, nevermind that mining is ruining our world as well, nevermind that cell phone towers are killing between 5 and 50 million migratory song birds every year or that dams are killing the salmon off, no none of this matters apparently).
As long as
clean energy is more expensive
than dirtier
alternatives,
other domestic policies will still need to tip the balance toward investments in
clean options.
Most of us are directly tied into the local water supply, which is great when it works well, and horrible when it doesn't (as evidenced by the recent and ongoing travesties in communities such as Flint, Michigan), and although some homes may capture rainwater for irrigation, or have their own well, there aren't a lot of
alternative choices for getting
clean drinking water,
other than purchasing bottled water.