Thread by @ClimateHuman

I just want to say fuck the coal industry. Fuck it all the way to hell. Fuck the coal barons. FUCK JOE MANCHIN. Let's retrain all the blue collar workers and give them job guarantees but I never again want to hear "but the jobs" as an excuse to keep this fossil industry around.

Here is some context. It is IMPOSSIBLE to state how wrong this is. It is a planet-sized conflict of interest. It is a travesty of government that this is even legal. It shows clearly how the state and the legal system exist to serve only the rich
nytimes.com/2021/09/19/cli…

Here is some more context

https://twitter.com/KarlMathiesen/status/1440398670713610244

Finally, this is a tiny, tiny bit of what we are losing. We are losing so much - and eventually everything - by allowing these fuckers to keep doing their business and pocketing their profits. That goes for fossil gas and oil too.
latimes.com/california/sto…

Out of the three, the coal industry should have been killed decades ago. It's unbelievable that it's still around in this period of already-ultra-intense and still-rapidly-intensifying climate emergency.

One more bit of context - the social normalization of the *MILLIONS* of deaths per year from burning fossil fuels, even not counting the eventual climate-related deaths it will cause in the fullness of time.
hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/news/…