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Propagandizing sooner rather than later, a front group for the coal industry last week wrapped up its first "Let's Learn About Coal" class in a West Virginia elementary school. Presented by the Ladies Auxiliary of the so-called Friends of Coal, the campaign teaches kids the importance of coal, visits kids in hospitals to give out the "special present" of a stuffed puppy named Mr. Coal - who kills 24,000 Americans a year - and distributes coloring books with explanatory pictures, scrambled word games and messages like "Coal Gives Us Power We Can All Depend On!" and "It's The Most Plentiful Fuel We have!" and "Coal Mining Provides Jobs for Lots of People!" For more on Friends of Coal, go here. For a somewhat more objective view of Mr. Coal, go here.
"Than coal other cheaper is fuels!" - a word game in the Friends of Coal coloring book.
9 Comments so far
Show Allarms with no see baby.
use coloring cannot book.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/78461.html
Joe
Explain 'Clean Coal' to all the Coal Ash Mutants and their families...
"Villagers in the Dominican Republic claim children have been born without limbs and organs. And, they are blaming the abnormalities on rock ash dumped by a Virginia coal company."
And here kiddies we see a picture of a mountain. If it gets in our way, here's what we do:
(next page) all gone! big old ugly mountain in our way gone is!
Actually, it's still there, just in some people's back yards.
The to-the-bone idiocy of the Right is only matched by breath-taking hypocrisy of the Left:
Don't like coal? Then turn your damned computers off.
Everything in the comic book is true, whether you like its one-sided-ness or not.
The coal companies are giving you exactly what you want: energy for computing, cell phone charging, tv watching, and lights.
It's tragic, but true.
My computer is hydro-electric powered, but where does that leave you, in the idiot department or the hypocrisy department?
Yes we need energy, obviously. But the rest of your argument is specious.
The need for energy does not mean we have to use 19th century technology in a world that is threatened by excess carbon in the air and water, by toxic wastes in communities and streams.
In a world whose human population has gone from 1.2 billion in 1850 to over 6 billion today, the amount of energy we need has expanded. Thus we need to improve and expand better technologies like wind and solar. Otherwise we face all the pollution caused by burning fossil fuels, especially serious being acidified oceans.
Fossil fuels will run out fairly soon. The coal industry is not willing to give up until the last dollar has been squeezed out of the earth. So they ridicule and block alternatives, unwilling to admit the harm that is being done.
Joe
Does the coal industry lobby against fuel efficient technologies? Does the governmtent mandate a realistic tax on this industry to be used for R&D on fuel efficient technologies?
The Ladies Auxiliary of the so-called Friends of Coal
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Now, THERE's one coal-hearted bunch of biddies! And anthracite, not bituminous, at that!
The coloring books are unfortunate. But, hey! surely they're intended for distribution to communities with a disproportionately large percentage of children developmentally and cognitively impaired as a result of breathing, drinking, and eating toxic coal-mining by-products.
So they probably won't even notice the clumsy little syntactic irregularities. Gotta see the glass as half-full, y'know-- even if it's half-full of doggie coal.
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