Comments on: Anti-Coal Movement on the Rise; National Day of Action in Over 50 Cities

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:31:04 +0000

Coal is bad, agreed, but fission-fires are worse! We know how to light them, but we don’t know how to put them out! Want to see humans trying to put out a fission-fire? SEE: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5384001427276447319
Until we can put these fires out safely and effectively, we should not light them! The waste from fission fires is another problem, far worse than the waste from coal fires! We have no way to get rid of the fission-fire wastes – no safe way! At least coal fire wastes can be made into cement, or dumped safely in the sea, or buried damn near anywhere, without killing off everything around! Coal is safer than fission-fires, and can be refined to be even safer than it is. Can this be said of fission-fires? perhaps in time fission fires will be less primitive, and produce no waste, be more controllable, and extinguishable, but for now, we are more able to control coal fires and must avoid dangerous fission fires at all costs. Fare safer, but less popular, solar, wind, wave, hydro, tidal and geothermal power require that we adapt our “American Dream” lifestyle of unsustainablity to a sustainable lifestyle, something Americans are unwilling to do to date. Pressures from the end of the cheap oil era, the great repuglican depression, the falling dollar, bad trade balances world wide, and high under and unemployment may warp us back to a realistic lifestyle, marked by the death of the SUV, punctuated by the end of the “Hummer” and finalized by the Iraq pull-out, sans oil riches expected! Who knows! Coal is rapidly becoming America’s last hope not for recovery, for survival!

By: Fred Nadelman, LMSW

Fred Nadelman, LMSW — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:31:57 +0000

Coal is as dangerous to lungs as tobacco. It cannot be breathed safely. We should never have to breathe our air through masks.

By: Shanw Simonson

Shanw Simonson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:13:29 +0000

Maybe RAN could give us a link to send an email to B of A thanking them???

By: Bank of America to Stop Financing Mountaintop Removal « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:16:52 +0000

[...] is a major grassroots victory. It was less than three weeks ago, we had the No Coal Day of Action with over 70 events calling out the banks for their funding of mountaintop removal (and parts of [...]

By: Bank of America to Stop Financing Mountaintop Removal! « The End of Capitalism

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:43:05 +0000

[...] are thrilled that just two and a half weeks after RAN’s day of action against coal and coal finance, Bank of America has made a public commitment to stop financing the [...]

By: The Understory » This Just In: Bank of America to Stop Financing Mountaintop Removal!

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:19:31 +0000

[...] are thrilled that just two and a half weeks after RAN’s day of action against coal and coal finance, Bank of America has made a public commitment to stop financing the [...]

By: The Understory » Direct action in the climate movement on the rise

The Understory » Direct action in the climate movement on the rise — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:08:45 +0000

[...] Out of the coalfields, in the suburbs and cities, students, radicals and concerned citizens are pressuring the coal financiers, Bank of America and Citibank, to withdraw their capital from coal and carbon intensive industry. The landscape is changing and [...]

By: Direct Action in the Climate Movement on the Rise. « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:23:53 +0000

By: Jill Knight

Jill Knight — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:54:30 +0000

Let us to go solar and wind power… after all they are free!!

By: Elizabeth Ackman

Elizabeth Ackman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:23:00 +0000

Let’s get away from coal and gas and move to solar and wind energy, both of which are free in nature.