He served in an artillery unit and although he got through the war without being wounded, his exposure to
poison gas ruined his vocal chords, leaving him with the high - pitched voice texture that made him a natural for old man roles while still in his thirties.
Coal mining produces green house
gases, it
ruins entire ecosystems through the
poisoning of water tables and the destruction of forests and sometimes entire mountaintops, it pollutes with heavy metals, the list goes on and on.