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So mining coal doesn't destroy habitat for wildlife?And burning coal hasn't increased Co2 levels & adversely impacted the climate to the detrimental of wildlife? OK mate, crawl back under your rock.
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1. no. they do env impact studies before going ahead. no birds, no whales, .probably a few loose big reds.
2. Trees will absorb all the excess CO2. Plus you breath out CO2 too every minutes ..stop being a hypocrite & get a rope

crawl back under your solar panel/.