Wed, May 28, 2008
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Image by Rastafabi
Ah, coal. If you live in the
Wait, you may ask–how does coal get clean? Doesn’t it pump billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year? Why yes, yes it does. And the coal companies are planning to get rid of it all somehow. They’ll let you know. Seriously, carbon sequestration for coal won’t be ready until 2030, if there is such a thing. As you might imagine, this has raised the ire of the environmental community quite a bit, and led us to produce stuff like this:
That cartoon is really just the tip of the iceberg–an entire website, Coal-is-Dirty.com, has sprung up to combat the idea that clean coal is like anything other than “fat-free donuts.” They’ve got talent to burn–the cartoon was developed in conjunction with Mark Fiore, an award-winning political cartoonist, and we all know the coal industry isn’t going to stop giving them low-hanging fruit for subject matter.
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May 28th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Wow! Easily the best video on the subject I’ve seen since the Stinky Toons results!
http://www.stinkytoons.com/sgw
Thanks for sharing!