Coal is a cheap and abundant resource, and carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal use is responsible for about 40 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fossil fuel use.
Each year in Australia, toxic air pollution from coal-burning power stations kills nearly 800 people and worsens conditions such as asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis and other respiratory diseases.
Coal Power stations pump out high levels of mercury, PM2.5 and PM10 particle pollution and sulfur dioxide.
Communities who live near coal-fired power stations have an enormous health burden from pollution and are often left in the dark about the threats to their health.
Communities with low incomes and insecure work, elderly people, people with chronic diseases, pregnant people and young children are all disproportionately impacted.
Maybe we should name climate heating from burning coal and other fossil fuel induced extreme events after coal fired power plants?
2019/20 seemingly never ending bushfires - "Vic Brown coal fired fires"?
4 or 5 Hawkesbury 1 in 100 year floods in the last few years - "Eraring Powered Floods"?
No rain in SW Western Australia, gardens and National Parks die off - could be Collie - but given it's WA - "Gas exports - no rain, no plants"?
Coal To Win 2025 Australian of the Year Award, page-2
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