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Pros And Cons Of Coal

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Coal is running out and won’t last forever, and it’s also very dangerous for us and our planet. Did you know that there is only about 180-250 years left before we run out of coal? What are we planning on doing when that happens. We don’t use coal nearly as much as other fossil fuels for electricity but if coal will run out, then that means that other fossil fuels will be very low or already gone by then. Coal is a fossil fuel which means that its non-renewable because it takes hundreds of millions of years to form from dead plants. We can’t rely on that process since we have used up almost 50% of the coal that we had since the 1800s which means that we can’t wait around for more of it to form if we used 50% of it in 200 years. It also produces
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