Is coal worth the affects that it causes? It's true that coal generates forty percent of the energy
the we use in America but is it worth it? The miners could get diseases and possibly evan death,
a high rate of pollution caused by coal smog, and animals hurt because of the expansion of, so
why do we still continue.
I think coal expansion should stop because it causes health illnesses or even death for the
miners. Mining coal should stop because it could lead to a miner getting a serious illness or
possibly even death. The Lancet,summarizes the burden of the health effects of generating
electricity from coal and lignite. The author estimate that for every TWH(terawatt-hour) of
electricity produced from coal in europe, there 24.5 death and 225 serious illnesses. This shows
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It also shows that mining coal affects the
lives of the miners in a very bad way. Mining coal also leads to many diseases that could affect
the miners drastically. Mining coal should stop because it causes many diseases. Becauses coal
causes diseases like cancer or could get a stroke. In the United States coal contributes to four
of the five leading causes of mortality: heart disease,cancer, stroke and respiratory diseases.
This shows that mining coal causes many diseases that could kill the miners working on mining.
Miners also run the risk of respiratory damage through the high levels of dust and other chemical
particulates present in deep coal mining facilities. Some of the disorders caused by these
particulates include COPD, coal worker's pneumoconiosis (CWP, also known as black lung),
and progressive massive fibrosis (PMF). The threat of damage to hearing is also a constant
concern as the equipment miners work around is quite