If you’re going to consider the health costs than to be fair you need to consider the health benefits we have seen over the last fifty years and then find a common starting point.

Of course burning coal isn’t the best answer. The best answer is to build nuclear plants but surprisingly those who are advocating for a greener source of energy are the loudest objectors.

Profit? From whom?

First of all you need to distinguish between fossil fuels for electrical generation and fossil fuels for transportation. The Middle East, Saudi, etc. supply us with oil. We do not use oil for the generation of electricity. Currently, and for the foreseeable future, we have no alternatives for oil as a fuel for…