Stop burning coal tomorrow and you'll work it out.
1. resume whale slaughtering for blubber oil for lamps - should be popular and will increase employment in the ailing fishing industry
2. resume forest clearing wholesale for heat,cooking and light sources - again, another hugely popular move in the green movements, adding significant employment prospects for women and children and the ailing Axe manufacturing industry.
3. return to real smog and poverty
Clean is clearly a subjective description. Burning coal in a modern power plant is significantly cleaner than burning coal, wood or cow dung in every household oven, open fire and heater.
And its a lot easier to find than fairy dust, you know, the sh1te you lot think will run wind turbines and solar wankfests.
How's
that our (the tax payers) $90million investment into Tim Flannerys Geodynamics going? Just as easy as drilling a hole and pumping a bit of water down it he reckoned......