Toxins such as heavy metals, asbestos (when inhaled), toxic gasses and chemicals; silicate dust, hay dust or smoke when inhaled in large quantities or over a long period (smoke and dust
from coal burning kills millions of people each year);
Air pollution
from coal burning kills more than 100,000 people per year.
Not exact matches
But
coal is not «cheap» for the Appalachian communities destroyed by mountaintop removal (see appvoices.org), nor for the miners
killed or sickened because worker safety would be too costly for mine owners, nor for the areas made permanently dead
from the mining practices, nor for the children poisoned by the toxic fumes of even the cleanest -
burning coal plants, not to mention the entire planet, every species, every community, every neighborhood being damaged and degraded by the global warming
coal burning causes.
Wind turbines can and do replace
coal -
burning power stations and the World Health Organisation tells us that air pollution, much of it
from burning coal,
kills seven million people each year.
Apart
from climate change, the World Health Organisation tells us that air pollution
from burning coal is
killing millions of people each year.
On the other hand air pollution
from the
burning of
coal kills millions of people each year, as reported by the World Health Organisation, and renewable energy, including wind power, displaces
coal fired power.
Air pollution
from the
burning of
coal causes serious diseases and
kills millions of people annually world - wide.
It can conservatively be estimated that the air pollution
from the
burning of
coal kills at least two million people world - wide each year.
Air pollution
from burning coal, driving cars, and using fire to clear land, among other activities, is the fourth - leading cause of death worldwide,
killing about 5.5 million people each year.
The fact that air pollution
from the
burning of
coal kills millions of people each year seems not to bother them, nor does the climate change damage
from the
burning of fossil fuels.
To oppose wind power is to support the
coal industry by default; air pollution
from the mining, transport and particularly the
burning of
coal kills millions of people world wide each year.