In the end it’s impossible to have a reasonable discussion with someone who considers the .3 percent portion of the air which every plant on Earth needs to survive a dangerous pollutant. Or who believes that the Earth’s climate is so fragile and mankind so powerful that we can possibly affect it. If you mention King Canute to them you’ll probably just get a puzzled stare.
I’ve always been of the opinion that people need to clean up after themselves. It just shouldn’t be at the expense of lives here or in the so called third world. The coal insanity is destroying lives of hard working but marginal people who can’t readily adapt to, table waiting or computer programming. That’s criminal.