South park needs to make a episode about this
PLEASE
I can see it now, Coalie enters the scene:
“Howdy-coughcoughcough - oh! My back, Kyle”
There’s a recent video from Hank Green outlining the very compelling argument for abandoning coal power in strictly economic terms. It turns out that even if you ignore the big picture environmental impacts like global warming and acid rain, and you also ignore the localized impacts like air pollution and chemical waste, and you ignore the other negative externalities like long term health effects on the workers, then coal is still hard to justify because natural gas plants are simply more profitable.
Not to say that we should be ignoring any of those things, but just to make a point about how impossible it is to make a good faith argument for coal in today’s world.
It’s just a bad fuel in every way. This administration is trying to coerce us to use it
You’re the worst character ever, Coalie.
One high please
More “wanna get brain damage from coal pollutants?”
Or, “How about some Black Lung”
As someone who grew up in a mining town I cannot wrap my head around how anyone would want it back. (Money, ofc.)
We grew up playing in dead, bright orange sulfur creeks that are just now beginning to heal 40 years later.
We watched our community die from black lung.
The streets and homes were filthy with black dust.
Fuck coal.
I assume there’s a cartoon where they burn him?
Yeah, just google “Coalie rule 34”
Weighted companion coal
The utterly ludicrous and comical contradiction of having an unsustainable mascot never even crossed their mind.
What’s funny is that coal power puts 100x more radiation into the environment than nuclear power.
Apparently its also why fish are high in mercury because mercury in burnt coal eventually finds its way to the ocean.
It’s not even really an eventually, it’s about a direct as you get. It is exhausted into the sky, gets caught in the water cycle and rains back down to earth.
It is also the most serious contributor to acid rain.
https://www.gem.wiki/Sulfur_dioxide_and_coal
The EPA estimates that more than 65%, or over 13 million tons per year, of SO2 production in the U.S. comes from electric utilities, 93 percent of which is produced by coal power plants.
specifically tuna, its the bioaccumulation on the food web, the TUNA eats other animals that have mercury in it, that eats smaller animals that filter mercury, it piles up.
thats likely the least of the problems coal can do, global warming, pullution
Right, but this is a clear gatcha since all people want to talk about when it comes to nuclear is “toxic green sludge” and storage, as if the rocks didn’t already come from inside a mountain…
That is funny!
This little guy looks like he’d be introduced to me by Troy McClure.
I thought it was a South Park bit.
Yeah, except coalie looks like he’s about to cry
Remember when they made Joe Camel illegal because it was appealing to kids, good times
Now, people are gonna say this is meant to brain-wash children.
But you see, the lead-brained troglodyte, drooling demented dumb fuck boomer generation that has gleefully and passionately supported Trump through racism and child rape, are cognitively declining at record setting rates.
This is for them, to be pur on their TVs they don’t know how to use so they can stare at it all slack jawed and stupid while they murmur under their breath and slowly clap their hands together before they have the good graces to finally liberate this planet from their presence already.
Ever see one of the arguments on Facebook about removing lead in aviation fuel?
Half of the comments unintentionally demonstrate why removing lead is a good idea. It’s really amusing, or would be if it wasn’t so sad. “The lead is distributed over a wide area! It’s not a problem!”
And aviation fuel is not even taxed usually :/ we are so dumb. Meanwhile so many dismantled train and tram tracks all over
“the ocean is so big, it can easily accommodate the itty bitty nuclear waste from these minuscule Fukushima meltdowns!”
This is so embarrassing.
Just put some eyes on a hunk of coal, and it’s cute! Y’know, for the kids! This is going to save our whole dying industry!
just waiting for the coalie labubu
If course it’s also low effort ai slop
Kimmel had a pretty good roast of it but it’s already such a sad satire of itself it was barely necessary
Big issue with the state of politics, comedians are basically relegated to just reading the news because it’s already a satire.
And that’s on a good day, when they aren’t trying to figure out how to even be humorous around the horrific things they need to talk about.
Yeah, can’t really joke about executions in the street.
Jesus… and I thought Towelie was lame.
At least Towlie reminds us to bring a towel. That’s actually useful information with no downsides.
Douglas Adams taught me that in a much less annoying way.
Douglas Adams also taught me you can never have too many showers in a single day.
