Comments on: Trump’s New Environmental Regs Will Kill More People Where He Announced It

By: Ipecac

Ipecac — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 13:18:00 +0000

“I think he has the best interests of the regular common people at the forefront,”

Now why the FUCK would you think that? What has Trump done at ANY time that would give you that impression? Really, in what universe is this actually a rational thought?

By: Draxiar

Draxiar — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 10:47:00 +0000

These people can’t be saved- don’t want to be saved- and may not think they need to be. I’m okay with that. I’m not their keeper and I’m inclined to not impose upon them or presume to know what they need. So I’ll eschew any sympathy I had and devote any concern I had for them and give it to the environmental impacts of this. I’ve always been on nature’s side and will put my full energy toward our good green Earth.

By: muselet

muselet — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 01:39:00 +0000

Coal is an awful fuel. It’s filthy to extract, filthy to process and filthy to burn. The sulfur released when the stuff is burned contributes to acid rain, which kills forests and lakes hundreds of miles away. Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (black lung disease) is a terrible way to die.

Coal is also more expensive than natural gas and solar (depending on how you run the numbers, but the direct cost of solar-generated electricity is falling and coal-generated electricity is rising).

I understand nostalgia for the Good Old Days! when everyone had a job mining coal, but those miners worked twenty—maybe thirty—years before they dropped dead from CWP.

Coal should be considered a legacy fuel, something to be phased out as quickly as possible, and the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of coal miners should be pushing to end its use. “The regular common people” will be the ones who suffer because of the Trump administration’s coal fetish, to the tune of 1.4 to 2.4 excess deaths per 100,000. That should be too high a price for any civilized nation.

–alopecia

By: muselet

muselet — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 01:20:00 +0000

In reply to Scopedog.

I’m not at the “let them die” stage, but I understand the sentiment.

–alopecia

By: Scopedog

Scopedog — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 21:59:00 +0000

My God. This son-of-a-bitch’s rules will kill people…and the people who will die from this just shrug and say, “Yeah, whatever.”

You know, as much as I try to find an ounce of sympathy for these people, I just cannot do it anymore. Let them suffer.